topic Re: Configured user in Operating System - HP-UX

Configured user

Rene Mendez_4 — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:46:02 GMT

Hello

How to configure a user and this user execute ping only.

Regards
Rene

Re: Configured user

Rick Garland — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:51:37 GMT

You can create the user with a restricted shell (rsh) and in the users home directory is a copy of the ping command.

The users .profile will unset the system wide PATH variable and only have PATH=$HOME

Re: Configured user

James R. Ferguson — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:55:56 GMT

Hi Rene:

One way would be to create a shell script that asks the user for the address or DNS name to ping, does the ping and exits.

Then, create a user account but specify the name of your shell script instead of the usual shell as the program to use for the shell.

Your shell script would look like:

#/usr/bin/sh
trap 1 2 3 ''
echo "Enter IPAddress or hostname\c "
read WHO
/usr/sbin/ping ${WHO}
exit 0

When the user exits, he/she is logged off.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Configured user

Oviwan — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:56:02 GMT

Hi

In the .profile file define the shellvar as a script. In this script allow to execute only ping. after his login, the script start automatically. If the user exit the script then the session will close.

Regards

Re: Configured user

Geoff Wild — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 15:37:19 GMT

If the user can only execute ping - why have them login at all - I mean in order to login - they must be using some sort of client - IE Windows - therefore - they already have the ability to run ping from a Command Prompt...

Just my 2 cents as I thought the question was a bit out there...

Re: Configured user

Rene Mendez_4 — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 16:20:50 GMT

Thx a lot