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From: Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Locking down a user with a shell account and SSH access
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 23:33:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN0CFw1jGuJ_N+5WEM5yWFspYFadVAxRAtUpzxFGXEsV1YZxOg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130702003417.514e43d9@digimed.co.uk>

>> My backup user needs a shell on the backup server in order to execute
>> rsync and needs to be included in /etc/ssh/sshd_config AllowUsers in
>> order to SSH in.  My authorized_keys file is locked-down.  The second
>> field for the user in /etc/shadow is an exclamation point which I
>> think means the user can not log in with a password.  Should I take
>> any additional steps to prevent that user from logging in and not
>> being subject to the authorized_keys restrictions?
>
> What about "PasswordAuthentication no"?

Can that be set for a single user?  I have a normal user who needs to
log in via SSH with a password and a backup user who only needs to run
rsync via SSH keys.  If not, does the exclamation point in /etc/shadow
prevent the user from logging in without the SSH key?

- Grant


  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-02  6:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-01 23:24 [gentoo-user] Locking down a user with a shell account and SSH access Grant
2013-07-01 23:34 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-07-02  6:33   ` Grant [this message]
2013-07-02  6:39     ` Adam Carter
2013-07-02  7:44     ` Alan McKinnon
2013-07-18 16:21       ` Grant
2013-07-18 18:32         ` Alan McKinnon
2013-07-18 19:58 ` Paul Hartman

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