>Does anyone know of a good way to have sshd check an arbitrary textfile
>full of usernames to determine whether or not to allow a login
>attempt? I'm running RedHat Linux 5.2.
>
>The `AllowUsers' configuration option which is already part of SSH
>doesn't seem to take a textfile as an argument, so that won't work.
>
>I need to selectively allow user access to sshd based on the file
>/etc/sshd_users. For example, if user "foo" is listed in
>/etc/sshd_users, he should be able to log into my server through sshd
>(after typing in his password and stuff). However, the ssh login
>attept for "bar" would be denied and closed before he had a
>chance to authenticate since he wasn't listed in /etc/sshd_users.
AFAIK, there isn't a way to do this; perhaps this should be considered a
feature request? (no, I don't have a use for it, but I can see how others
would)
However, you could set the banned users shells to be /bin/false (or similar)
to deny them access to the system. Remember to put /bin/false in /etc/shells
if you want to give them ftp access.
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