Configured user

[Rene Mendez_4]

Hello

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

Regards
Rene

[Rick Garland · Accepted solution]

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

[James R. Ferguson]

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...

[Oviwan]

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

[Geoff Wild]

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...

[Rene Mendez_4]

Thx a lot