[CentOS] Setting up a userID for an SSH tunnel

James Hogarth james.hogarth at gmail.com
Tue Jan 19 07:16:52 UTC 2016


On 19 Jan 2016 05:32, "Gordon Messmer" <gordon.messmer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 01/18/2016 03:04 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>
>> I need/desire to set up a userID for an SSH tunnel, but not allow said
user to have a login to the server.
>
>
> The user needs to be able to log in to a shell that does nothing
interactively.  You might be able to set the shell to /usr/bin/cat...

Better still a force command that discards any attempted command by the
user...

Extra points if they attempt a command and "yelling" at them ;)

I'd also use at least a chroot in case they do manage to get interactive
access.



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