Ubuntu :: Restricting Access To The Apps?
Feb 4, 2011
In my office i want to setup a Linux machine for public usage , in this machine i want to restrict/deny access to certain applications (ex:- k3b, xterm , pdf reader etc) for certain users/group of users as per the office policies.
1)By what method/procedure i can achieve this objective ?
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Jun 29, 2010
I have a desktop (picard), and I want to be able to connect to it from my sisters laptop (zuma) to quickly scp files from my machine to hers. At the same time I don't want the whole world to be able to connect to my machine via SSH. We're connected through a router. I've tried adding the line
"ListenAddress 192.168.0.0"
to /etc/ssh/sshd_config, but this prevents me from being able to connect to my machine from another on the network. From my understanding of the ListenAddress directive, I would assume "ListenAddress 192.168.0.0" would allow my sister's address through (192.168.0.192).
Am I missing something?
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Jan 14, 2010
I have a small home network with a router to the outside world and an ubuntu server through which traffic passes first.My ISP limits my download usage during the day, which traditionally has not been an issue, but now the children come in from school, boot up the internet and up goes my usage!Ideally I would like to be able to restrict them to IM and maybe certain specified URLs (I think the latter probably needs to use Squid though?). Once the download limits are lifted, I would like my iptables to allow HTTP, etc, but pretty much block most other things.
I have two sets of iptables currently to approach this issue, with a cron job that runs to swap between one and the other.Chains run in order, so if rule A says allow x, and rule B says drop all, then X should still be allowed. However, try as I may, this is not what happens in practice. I have even tried changing the overall order from ALLOW to DROP in FORWARD and then approach from the other angle. That didn't work either. *IS* it actually possible to block all but http / https and IM? These are myrules:
Code:
# Generated by iptables-save v1.4.4 on Sat Jan 9 19:15:49 2010
*nat
:PREROUTING ACCEPT [583:45175]
:POSTROUTING ACCEPT [694:60887]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [143:18642]
[code]....
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Apr 22, 2010
I have an internet and mail server installed CentOS, and I want to restrict client machines to access a certain website, e.g. if i want restrict users from accessing the website: www.mydomain.com, How do I do it?
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Is there a way to restrict users that are logged into the shell via SSH/Telnet/SFTP from using the 'cd' command to move into certain directories, yet not use the chmod command to do it? For instance, restrict users logged in from accessing the /var/www/ folder but have it still accessible using a web browser. Also, would this defeat the purpose since they could just wget from it if its still web accessible through a browser?
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Nov 26, 2010
Every developer in our organization has access to a single development server and all development ( other than basic experimentation ) is done on this server. This is primarily because there are several interdependent systems and having copies of these systems on each developers machine slows that machine down to the extent of making it completely unusable. All developers access this development server using ssh. Of course this implies that scp will also work as the sshd daemon is running making data vulnerable.
We are currently attempting to secure the code and data on this server from unauthorized copying and transfer.
Currently I am attempting to set up virtual machines on each developer machine that can then be used to connect to the development server. I have created a shell that does nothing but allow for the typing of one command that simply transfers ( ssh login ) the user onto the development server.
I am using virtualBox and ubuntu mini to achieve this.
Problems: The first question is if this is a reasonable way to achieve what I am attempting to. Is there a better way?
The others is more in terms of the set-up: I am attempting to resize the virtualBox console. I tried this by editing grub. Although I am able to resize the screen at start-up the entire screen goes back to ( what I believe is 800x600 ) after the Ubuntu splash screen.
The virualBox seems to have completely messed up the keyboard detection how can I rectify this?
The other is regarding the restricting of shell access I have currently done this by removing access to /bin/ for normal users. Is this secure enough or is there a better way?
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I have searched somewhat this forum but haven't yet found a similar post using the keywords I entered but perhaps there is already a similar post then please refer me to it.I am trying to add a user account "Guest" to allow people on my laptop without giving them access to vital parts of the computer. Basically, I want them to only be able to view their own home directory and access internet. Nothing more.I have set the group to "guest" and changed the other home directories of other users to owner access only.
Guest still has access to root and is still allowed to perform actions in various critical areas (deleting files from for example my Windows 7 partition). This I also want to prevent. I was thinking to set each directory's permissions to Owner and Group only and remove Others access.My questions:
1. Will this have any undesirable impact (programs of main user accounts not able to access certain directories)? For guest user I don't care as long as internet works.
2. When I start User Manager and disable for Guest all options except "access internet" (so I also disable access to CDROM), the guest can still access the CDROM. Does this mean the User Settings menu has no effect or is overruled by something?
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