topic SSH command line not Menu in Operating System - Tru64 Unix

SSH command line not Menu

Jefferson_6 — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 01:08:32 GMT

Hi guys,
Ive successfuly login to my server using ssh.My problem is the output is a Menu driven.How can i change it to a command line ?

Re: SSH command line not Menu

Ivan Ferreira — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 08:14:59 GMT

What do you mean with:

"Output is a Menu driven?"

What menu do you get?. Maybe you are starting an application from the .profile, when you logon using ssh, you should end at the OS prompt.

Re: SSH command line not Menu

Jefferson_6 — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 20:50:00 GMT

Hi,
Heres the login menu.How can i edit my .profile so that i will go directly to os prompt ?
===================================
Open Source Internet Solutions Menu
===================================
1) Mail
2) News Reader
3) WWW Line Mode Browser
4) Change Password
5) Read User Guide
6) Quit

Enter number of choice and press :

Re: SSH command line not Menu

Kasper Hedensted — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 02:53:04 GMT

Hi,

This is an Internet Express captive account and you cannot access the shell.

Take a look at chapter 3 in this doc:
http://h30097.www3.hp.com/docs/iass/OSIS_64/admin/admingde.pdf

Cheers,
Kasper

Re: SSH command line not Menu

Jefferson_6 — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 03:22:48 GMT

Yes Internet Express captive account users cannot access the Tru64 UNIX shell.How can i add users then that access the cli? so that whenever i ssh to my server it goes directly to the cli.

Re: SSH command line not Menu

Ann Majeske — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:18:27 GMT

Have you tried using the standard Tru64 UNIX tools for adding users, i.e. useradd or dxaccounts?

Re: SSH command line not Menu

Jefferson_6 — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 20:01:05 GMT

Hi Anne,
Yes i tried that already. After creating the user, after supplying the password, authentication was successful then the connection is closed. A message saying Contact your Administrator. what seems to be the problem ? my login shell is /bin/sh

Re: SSH command line not Menu

Kasper Hedensted — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 01:42:18 GMT

Your account is probably locked.

Unlock it with dxaccounts or "usermod -x administrative_lock_applied=0 username"

Re: SSH command line not Menu

Jefferson_6 — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 19:45:03 GMT

It worked, i just removed the lock.Thanks a lot.My problem is when i login as a user, i cant change to the root user.What configuration would i do here?

Re: SSH command line not Menu

Kasper Hedensted — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 00:52:40 GMT

Your user needs to be in the system group.
Use dxaccounts or "usermod -G system username" (or edit /etc/group manually)

Re: SSH command line not Menu

Jefferson_6 — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 20:40:02 GMT

Thanks.i can now change to the root. My final concern is how to secure my ssh. Can you give some tips on the configuration ?tia

Re: SSH command line not Menu

Al Licause — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 07:56:30 GMT

If you have privelage to do so, you can simply su and type in the root password or you logout and back in again as root assuming root logins are not disabled.

RE: securing ssh....just what is it you're trying to do ? Are you trying to prevent certain people from login ? Do you want to use different access methods ? Please provide more detail as to the type of environment you are trying to create.....

Re: SSH command line not Menu

Jefferson_6 — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 08:09:01 GMT

my concern at first is to limit the number of ip address accessing. second is maybe what kind of accessing is secure? right now im using on the password.thanks for all the help

Re: SSH command line not Menu

Al Licause — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 11:39:20 GMT

If you're trying to limit the number of concurrent users, you could limit the number of psuedo devices on the system (/dev/pts.....).

You could also use ifaccess filters to limit from where they can ssh, but this will be an all or nothing block....not just ssh.

As to what is secure, that's really something you have to define. The relative security of a system is determined by the site. The more secure your site, the more you need to do to ensure that the system is secure.