[gentoo-server] Restricted IRC Client

[gentoo-server] Restricted IRC Client

[Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman]

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People, I'm looking for a restricted irc client so I can provide an outside user access to an IRC
network. So, this guy would ssh/telnet to me, and having hisuser set to an irc-client shell,
automatically get the irc client executed. So, why I need a restricted client (or sandbox/cage) is
now obvious. I've thought of different methods, but all of them have flaws in my head, and I need
your advice here.

Thanks!

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Consultor en Seguridad Informatica
President, Open Information System Security Group - Argentina
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Re: [gentoo-server] Restricted IRC Client

[Tim Daniel Schumacher]

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Hi Arturo,

Am Montag, 22. August 2005 14:44 schrieb Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman:
>  People, I'm looking for a restricted irc client so I can provide an
> outside user access to an IRC network. So, this guy would ssh/telnet to me,
> and having hisuser set to an irc-client shell, automatically get the irc
> client executed. So, why I need a restricted client (or sandbox/cage) is
> now obvious. I've thought of different methods, but all of them have flaws
> in my head, and I need your advice here.

Do you realy need ssh/telnet? What about CGI:IRC[1]?  It is a very flexible 
IRC-client written in perl for use on a homepage.
In case of a consolebased IRC-client you might want to look at irssi[2], which 
is very powerfull, but I realy don't know if it is possible to restrict 
commands. To restrict them for gaining access to the rest of the filesystem 
you can use a chroot environment, I think there must be many howtos 
describing this case.

HTH

Tim

[1] http://cgiirc.sourceforge.net/
[2] http://www.irssi.org/

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