Prevent SSH users from accessing "Top" and other commands

Boboss

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May 26, 2003
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Can someone indicate how to ensure that users do not get access to commands such as "top", "ps", etc.?

Thanks.
 

jayh38

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The best and easiest way, don't give ssh jailshell.

I never do on any server. There is enough power via cpanel, cse script, ftp scripts etc.
Everything a user needs can be done through a gui.

just my opinion. And if a user demands it, then they can also deman another
provider because thats something I definitely will not provide.

good luck
 

Spiral

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I don't recommend giving any kind of shell access to any user ....

However to answer your question, you can set owner "root:root"
and permissions "700" on any program you want accessible
by root only.

While I don't see a problem with things such as 'ps' and 'top'
doing this, you should be advised that restricting some commands
could feasible break scripts that depend on those commands.
 

kevinm

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Another way to achieve this without having to go setting permissions about the fil system in a draconian way is to install a role based access control (RBAC) , the grsec kernel patches has a good rbac included in them . ( http://www.grsecurity.net/ ) It needs a kernel recompile , however once you have the least privilege policies created, then you can move this policy to any server with a few copy operations .