[clug] Wanted: Developer to securely implement a restricted SSH shell

Michael Still mikal at stillhq.com
Mon Jan 4 00:08:05 MST 2010


Nathan O'Sullivan wrote:
> 
>> Are you thinking of implementing a restricted shell and using openssh, 
>> or a custom ssh server?
>>
> I was thinking a custom shell with openssh; I hadn't considered a 
> specialised ssh server  - I guess partially under the presumption that 
> it would be far too difficult to do.

I wont comment on if its a good idea or not, but I would think a ssh 
server in python using paramiko would be a few hundred lines of code 
(I've written clients that way, but not a server yet).

Mikal


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