Ubuntu Servers :: Create Secure Shell Environment For Users?
Feb 25, 2010
I was planning on using my VPS to grant some of my friends shells. The problem though is that I don't want them doing crazy stuff on it, like using up all my RAM or disk space. I would like to limit them to a very small 25 mb disk space, and allow them only certain application in /usr/bin like python perl irssi screen etc. I do NOT want them to be able to cd out of their home directory. I really want this to be setup like the shell provider SHellium. I can setup the FTP and SSH stuff myself.
View 3 Replies
ADVERTISEMENT
Apr 22, 2011
I am setting up a small competition for a forum where there are a set of programming tasks to complete (in various languages). At the end of the allocated time, the fastest program that successfully completes the task wins.I would like to set up a server similar to the way the Google AI challenge works, where users can upload code to the server via an html page and the code is executed and profiled on the server.The problem is obviously security... so... how can I configure my server so that the uploaded scripts are run in a completely jailed environment and do not have access to anything outside their folder and cannot execute any commands on the server?The chain of events looks like this: User writes script on local machine -> user zips script -> user browses to server html page -> user uploads script -> script is compiled and executed on the server -> user is shown output from script
View 1 Replies
View Related
Nov 14, 2010
I came across this script a while back that i found. What i want to do is edit the script to create a default web page in /var/www/html a new user is added through the script.What the script does now is adds a user and sets a password for the user. What possible way (either through a combination of python or c or some other language) could i add to the shell script to do this? I've tried just dointhe command to touch index.html /var/www/html but it puts it on the desktop. Here's the script....
Code:
#!/bin/bash
# Script to add a user to Linux system
[code]...
View 3 Replies
View Related
Jul 21, 2011
I have an Ubuntu 11.04 instance running on Amazon EC2. I am currently using it as an SSH tunnel/SOCKS proxy. Most of my Net activity is on a Windows 7 machine running PuTTY. This setup is working very well. So well that a few of my friends have expressed interest in accessing it. Question is, how do I share this proxy, without giving away my private key and root access? I would like to limit users to only being able to set up an SSH tunnel/SOCKS proxy, with no shell access. What other security measures would you recommend for such a setup? I googled a bit and saw references to rbash and chroot. I have already changed the SSH port, and set the EC2 firewall to allow inbound SSH only from my ISP's address range. My friends use the same ISP. They would probably be running Windows 7/Vista, and PuTTY too.
View 4 Replies
View Related
Aug 19, 2011
I want to use samba in ubuntu.For samba users i make a user in my linux box like
# useradd smith
# useradd jone
These users can also login into my ubuntu system if they want. For samba I want to know that, is there any way to create separate valid list of samba users so that they may access files from windows xp.
View 8 Replies
View Related
Dec 30, 2010
I have accessing the suse linux using putty via ssh-1 and able to login to remote shell . can we start a GUI session from ssh login?
View 1 Replies
View Related
Jul 22, 2010
There are a couple commands I want to run in a terminal that require me to provide my password. I really don't want those commands ending up in any kind of history or anywhere else where they could be seen by someone after the command was run. Are there any shells/terminals for Ubuntu that I could use (or options to bash/zsh/etc) that would give me a secure environment where I don't have to worry about my history being kept?
View 3 Replies
View Related
Aug 20, 2010
What's the command to access a secure shell?
View 2 Replies
View Related
Jun 11, 2010
I want to learn using SSH (Secure Shell) service in linux and connect to SSH server with PuTTY to test some commands, but I have not worked with it yet;
I have Ubuntu 9.04 on my "Virtual Machine" and my host OS is Win.XP and I have installed "OpenSSH server" and "PuTTY" from the ubuntu repository,
Is this action rational? I mean I want to connect from PuTTY on linux(on VM) to the SSH Server on linux?
(Meanwhile, I have no work with the host Windows and just wanna test it on the linux!)
where should I see the "Host Name/Ip Address" of the SSH Server to enter in the PuTTy's dialog? In windows we can use "ipconfig" command to see the IP Addresses, but I don't know what is the command in linx for this purpose?
use SSH Service in ubuntu correctly
View 1 Replies
View Related
Aug 7, 2010
As per our requirement, I need to implement a Secure FTP server for around 500 users which includes security level on both - Transfer and Rest data. Apart from this I also need the following features -
1. Size quota on Users & reminder mails for the same
2. Password expiry notifications and user interface to change their password within specified time interval
3. Aging of data - After specified time, data will be moved to some other location from their home directory
4. All type of log maintenace for each file and user and log exporting
5. Uploading & Downloading speed consistency as per server level.
6. Read-write interface for user and read-only interface for their client for the same account.
7. Backup and Recovery options.
As of now, I am using VSFTPD which does not give these much of features in combine.
View 2 Replies
View Related
Jun 5, 2011
I am trying to create a shell script similar to ls, but which only lists directories. I have the first half working (no argument version), but trying to make it accept an argument, I am failing. My logic is sound I think, but I'm missing something on the syntax.
Code:
if [ $# -eq 0 ] ; then
d=`pwd`
for i in * ; do
if test -d $d/$i ; then
echo "$i:"
code....
View 10 Replies
View Related
Nov 27, 2015
I'm newbie on Debian, and I just installed Debian 8.2. (I used to run openSuse, and I see Debian is quite different.)
Where should I set environment variables (like PATH or JAVA_HOME) in order to affect all users?
I read some documentation about that, but It is not clear for me, the difference among "/etc/environment", "/etc/bash.bashrc" and "/etc/profile".
(In openSuse, I used to create a file "/etc/bash.bashrc.local" and set the environment variables there, in order these settings are not lost with updates.)
View 1 Replies
View Related
Nov 23, 2010
If I want to add Windows & Mac users as Samba users, must I first add them all as Ubuntu users? If so, since none of the other users will actually be working on the Ubuntu Server, how do I disable the other non-admin users on the Ubuntu Server login screen. I am using Webmin to administer some server settings, and command line for others.
View 3 Replies
View Related
Feb 8, 2010
I'm trying to write a simple shell script, its purpose is not important. The script needs to make use of the system $HOSTNAME environment variable. I had a look at this page which provides the following example.
Code:
#!/bin/sh
echo "You are user $UID on $HOSTNAME"
echo "Your home directory is: $HOME"
echo "$HOSTNAME is running $OSTYPE"
[Code]...
View 6 Replies
View Related
May 24, 2010
I am using Red Hat Linux Enterprise 5. I know the theory that -- using export to set environment variable, the environment variable will apply to current and child environment, but without using export to set environment variable, the environment variable will only apply to the current environment. What is the exact definition of "child environment" and "current environment"? For example,
Code:
$ var1=123
$ echo "Hello [$var1]"
The value of var1 (which is 123) is printed in shell, but I think echo is a command invoked by current shell, and it (the echo command) should be a child environment of current shell and the value of var1 should not (because not using export var1=123) impact echo.
View 13 Replies
View Related
Sep 8, 2009
I have a application on linux , I can excute it in command line . but when I invoked it via CGI(perl) , it can not excute successfully , so I suspected that there is something different between SHELL and CGI environment , but I haven't figure out what the difference is .
View 3 Replies
View Related
Jan 28, 2010
I heard (although I can't find any sources for proof) that the USER environment variable may not be set in a old Unix shells (maybe even some obscure shells as well). What is the probability that it won't be set?
View 2 Replies
View Related
Jun 2, 2011
I have been give a task of replicating one of our production systems to create a test system. I have been restricted to use c shell to set up its environment variables. I am new to this my questions is how do i set environment variables for a particular user on c shell e.g ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_SID permanently for a particualar user i know in bash you edit the .bash_profile file. What do i do for c shell?
View 2 Replies
View Related
May 12, 2010
I'm aware that one can export make variables to other makefiles; however, how does one export them to the environment of $(shell)? Take the example below:
Code:
export TEST
VARIABLE=$(shell echo $$TEST)
.PHONY: all
all:
#$(VARIABLE)
In this example, I might call make TEST=test. The goal is for $TEST to be available to the environment of the shell escape. This is because I need its value in a script which is called. For example:
Code:
VARIABLE=$(shell i-need-TEST.sh)My current solution is the following:VARIABLE=$(shell export TEST="$(TEST)"; i-need-TEST.sh) but this only works if I know all if the variables needed at that point (as opposed to being able to export variables in included makefiles.) Is there an easy solution?
View 4 Replies
View Related
Jul 19, 2010
My script is like this
Code:
How can i make the script do all those command using the script?
View 1 Replies
View Related
Dec 27, 2010
Things beyond my control are causing me to rush a bit in getting the website moved. I'm working hard to try and get it done, but something else has come up that SSL Certificate.I know that our website's "basket" area is protected by an SSL certificate to ensure customer information, especially credit info, is secure. With the move to Amazon's service, it looks like I may need to create our own self-signed SSL certificate to ensure the basket area remains secure.
I have found guides that walk through how to make one yourself and configuring apache to allow it, but something else has come to mind. The guides I found don't really indicate where the SSL certificate goes afterwards, and also doesn't suggest which sections should be governed by the certificate (as only the basket section uses it, not anything else). How would I find out that information?
View 1 Replies
View Related
Jan 17, 2011
If I pass to my shell environment as a regular user will it apply to builds ran under sudo?I posted a thread similar to this regarding a build with TOR; however, this is applicable to all programs.
View 6 Replies
View Related
May 30, 2011
I'm trying to setup an open-source project, I have a couple of developers on the team but nobody has experience with Apache. I would like to setup a simple home server for Bugzilla on Ubuntu 10.04, so my question is, is there a server that comes secure out-of-the-box so that simply adding files to /htdocs would suffice?
View 1 Replies
View Related
Apr 28, 2011
I have a tried looking at google up, no luck, but maybe i am blind, anyway. I want to looking for, I want to create a theme and icons, too.
View 3 Replies
View Related
Jun 30, 2010
create a user for php/MySQL under ms win environment?
View 1 Replies
View Related
Feb 23, 2010
I would like to set up a proxy server at home which i can use to access sites from work. I was thinking a web-page i log into and then a sort of use like a browser? like this for example, but where i can have a secure login
View 4 Replies
View Related
Jul 19, 2010
I am going to be away semi permanently and want to create a VPN that will allow me to act as if my laptop was connected to my home network.
All I want is for the drives to be accessible so I can use them for primary access as if they are in the laptop.
Questions:
1. Can I set up a Linux VPN that is secure using public WiFi (or however I connect to the net) when I am on the road?
2. I will be using a desktop (32 bit) as the server, what version of Linux would be best for this?
3. If my server is linux and the server drives are NTFS will they be accessible using a windows machine? (I will be double booting the laptop)
4. I would like to set up a pass-code that is stored on the laptop so that only that machine can get access.
This can be up to 255 characters and encrypted so it would be very hard to break. Even I would not know what it is. (I would store it on a pen drive and be able to recover it from there.)
One more. I might want to add separate users that only have access to their one drive, not the server drive. Is that OK?
View 5 Replies
View Related
Nov 22, 2010
I installed AWSTATS on my LAMP 10.04 LTS and followed several tutorials URL...) but I can't secure the folder, either by an alias or by .htaccess. I tried both methods manually and by using Webmin.If you go to the URL www.mywebsite/awstats/awstats.pl it shows up, which is good, but this is the default installation site and anyone who knows awstats could possibly see my stats. The conf folder is /etc/awstats/, and I did an alias for that, then .htacess, but neither worked. With the .htaccess, I would get a password promt but the full stats page was visible behind the password promt, and if you clicked "Cancel" about 20 times or so the promt would go away and the full stats page would be visible.
The actual file that powers awstats is in /usr/share/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl, and I also tried an Alias and .htaccess seperately and neither worked.I restarted apache2 after each change and I've searched several forums, but I still can't figure this out.
View 2 Replies
View Related
Jul 9, 2009
Is there a way to create a high availability environment between two CentOS machines? I don't mean just the HTTP service or just one other thing. I need the entire server synced in real time ready to take over if the next goes down.
View 3 Replies
View Related
Mar 8, 2010
I'm running Ubuntu Server 9.10 and I'm looking to setup an FTP server. I have SSH running beautifully and it's accessible from any computer whether it be inside the network or coming in from the internet (provided you have the administrator username and password ). I've tried Proftpd and vsftpd and have failed miserably so far. Which FTP server application do you think I should go with and how could I go about setting it up through my SSH connection?
My current setup is this:
- Ubuntu Server 9.10 with Fixed IP of 192.168.1.100
- 500GB Hard Drive
- SDA1 = 512MB ext2 /boot
- SDA2 = 2GB swap
- SDA3 = 20GB ext4 /
- SDA5 = 438GB ext4 /home
- One User (Username = administrator)
- Full SSH Capabilities
- IP Address to DNS provided by www.dyndns.org
- WRT120N Router with Remote Access and Port 22 Open
I basically want to set up a secure FTP server that anyone on the internal network can access as well as anyone from the internet (as long as they have a username and password). I want to setup a username and password for each user so that they all have read/write access to the same folder in my /home partition (I'll call it FTPSHARE).
View 9 Replies
View Related
