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Creating a UNIX account which only executes one command
Is there a way to create a user account in Solaris which allows the users to run one command only? No login shell or anything else. I could possibly do it with /usr/bin/false in /etc/passwd and just ...
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Do you need a shell for SCP?
I'm allowing a friend a local account on my machine, exclusively for SCP. Can I specify his account's shell as /bin/true, or in any other way limit the account, while still allowing SCP?
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Adding a user who can only execute scripts remotely
I would like to create a user who can only do one thing: via ssh specify a script ( and commandline arguments to the script ) that resides in one particular folder
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