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Re: [LUG] Securing SSH

 

On Monday 03 October 2005 18:15, jody salt wrote:
> I have an idea....
>
> I don't know if its been done already - but it would
> be cool if you could have some sort of fake ssh login
> that would log you in a fake computer system if you
> get the wrong password, you could then have secret
> command (specified in a configuration file) that you
> could use to verify that you have actually logged in
> correctly.
>

The best solution is to allow root login over SSH, but set root's shell to be 
'adventure'.

[yes, then you can never log-in as root even locally - but you can use sudo to 
get a root console]

;-)

David.

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