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: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 09:21:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN0CFw3cqFLjKOb66jftpff8KmjzCF5zpD1T-2hQxqcVJR5RQg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51D284E6.9030000@gmail.com>
>>>> 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?
>
> Depends.
>
> The user doesn't have a Unix password, so if the system prompts for one
> it cannot succeed and the login fails.
>
> But sshd has other implementations for authentication to, not just
> classic Unix. If it uses PAM, then PAM could in theory do anything, even
> using AD to authenticate with a password.
>
> So if your sshd config uses Unix passwords and keys ONLY (this is the
> norm), then what you describe above does what you want. To be sure, you
> need to audit sshd_config and your pam setup
Here is my entire sshd_config:
PasswordAuthentication no
UsePAM yes
PrintMotd no
PrintLastLog no
Subsystem sftp /usr/lib64/misc/sftp-server
AllowUsers user1 user2
That must be the Gentoo-default except for the last line, correct?
How is this config if I want user1 to login with a password and user2
has no password in /etc/shadow and automatically logs in via
authorized_keys to rsync?
- Grant
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-18 16:21 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
2013-07-02 6:39 ` Adam Carter
2013-07-02 7:44 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-07-18 16:21 ` Grant [this message]
2013-07-18 18:32 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-07-18 19:58 ` Paul Hartman
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