NETWORK Administration

I'm a newbie and I'd like to ask you some questions or a good web site
where I can get the following info.

I've a computer with SSH server and I've created few accounts for my
friends. They can log in just using it, but know I'd like:

1) To assign a specific disk quota to each home directory (they don't have
a logical partition for each user) as I don't want to allow them to use as
much space as they want.

2) To know who is logged in, I tried to use finger but I couldn't get it
to work. I didn't see any remote login.

3) To know if there's a log file where I can see what they did during the
session

4) To assign them the lowest permissions

5) To kick off or drop the connection of a selected user

Thanks,
Giuseppe

In comp.os.linux.networking Giobbe <(E-Mail Removed)>:
> I'm a newbie and I'd like to ask you some questions or a good web site
> where I can get the following info.

> I've a computer with SSH server and I've created few accounts for my
> friends. They can log in just using it, but know I'd like:

> 1) To assign a specific disk quota to each home directory (they don't have
> a logical partition for each user) as I don't want to allow them to use as
> much space as they want.

Follow the quota howto (www.tldp.org).

> 2) To know who is logged in, I tried to use finger but I couldn't get it
> to work. I didn't see any remote login.

Type 'w'.

> 3) To know if there's a log file where I can see what they did during the
> session

Not without special setup, however you can take a look at their
..bash_history after logout.

> 4) To assign them the lowest permissions

They don't have much anyway, check /etc/security/limits.conf to
even lower those.

> 5) To kick off or drop the connection of a selected user

Simply 'kill' their shell.

BTW
They'll know for sure quite fast where the bofh lives, as you
seem to give a shit about their privacy?

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On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 01:21:41 +0200, Michael Heiming wrote:

> In comp.os.linux.networking Giobbe <(E-Mail Removed)>:
>> I'm a newbie and I'd like to ask you some questions or a good web site
>> where I can get the following info.
>
>> I've a computer with SSH server and I've created few accounts for my
>> friends. They can log in just using it, but know I'd like:
>
>> 1) To assign a specific disk quota to each home directory (they don't have
>> a logical partition for each user) as I don't want to allow them to use as
>> much space as they want.
>
> Follow the quota howto (www.tldp.org).
>
>> 2) To know who is logged in, I tried to use finger but I couldn't get it
>> to work. I didn't see any remote login.
>
> Type 'w'.
>
>> 3) To know if there's a log file where I can see what they did during the
>> session
>
> Not without special setup, however you can take a look at their
> .bash_history after logout.
>
>> 4) To assign them the lowest permissions
>
> They don't have much anyway, check /etc/security/limits.conf to
> even lower those.
>
>> 5) To kick off or drop the connection of a selected user
>
> Simply 'kill' their shell.
>
> BTW
> They'll know for sure quite fast where the bofh lives, as you
> seem to give a shit about their privacy?


Where can I find a good manual about the files in /etc/security ? The man
pages don't say anything about... and I don't know how I can set tehm up...

On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 00:18:22 GMT, Giobbe wrote:
>
> Where can I find a good manual about the files in /etc/security ? The man
> pages don't say anything about... and I don't know how I can set tehm up...

man console.perms
man msec
man pam

You might read the headers of the files for the usage.

locate msec | grep doc/ will help

In comp.os.linux.networking Bit Twister <(E-Mail Removed)>:
> On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 00:18:22 GMT, Giobbe wrote:
>>
>> Where can I find a good manual about the files in /etc/security ? The man
>> pages don't say anything about... and I don't know how I can set tehm up...

> man console.perms
> man msec
> man pam

> You might read the headers of the files for the usage.

> locate msec | grep doc/ will help

Yep, in addition it would be great if the OP would stop multi
posting.

Please read: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/xpost.html

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