Re: ssh environment - circumvention of restricted shells

From: Markus Friedl (markusat_private)
Date: Wed Jun 26 2002 - 14:58:44 PDT

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    On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 08:08:12PM -0400, ari wrote:
    > Given the similarities with certain other security issues, i'm surprised
    > this hasn't been discussed earlier.  If it has, people simply haven't
    > paid it enough attention.
    
    if you setup restricted accounts with restricted shells and allow
    unrestricted writing to .ssh/** then you are lost.  same
    applies to ftp-only accounts where users have full control over
    what's in their $HOME.
    
    so for restricted accounts you have to be very careful, don't
    allow writing to $HOME, just to some selected sub directories.
    
    -m
    



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