Re: Tunnel-only SSH keys

On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 06:09:59PM +0200, Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > I once read somewhere that it's possible to limit SSH pubkeys to
> > 'tunnel-only'. I can't seem to find any information about this
> > in any of the usual places.
> > 
> > I'm going to be deploying a few servers in a couple of days and
> > I'd like them to log to a central server over an SSH tunnel (using
> > syslog-ng) however I'd like to prevent actual logins (hence
> > 'tunnel-only').
> > 
> > Can this be done with OpenSSH? I'd like to try and stay away from
> > the complexities of a chrooted-stunnel for now...
> 
> I think you can use /bin/false as shell, and then use ``ssh -nN''
> from the client.  I've not tested this, but I guess this should
> work.

See this discussion:

  http://www.blacksheepnetworks.com/security/hack/scponly.txt

> Regards,
> -- 
> Jeremie Le Hen
> < jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >

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