How to change default path for remsh?

[Kolyo Savov]

I have to open a server for very restricted remsh. Usage of restricted shell seems OK, but I can?t change default path by .profile.
Could someone advise me how to create a user allowed to execute remotely only files, located in his home directory.

Thanks,

Kolyo

[Stefan Farrelly]

Using rsh as a shaell the users .profile will only be run by a remote rlogin command, not a remote remsh/rsh command. So your options are;

1. to use rlogin (which will run the users .profile in which youve modified the PATH statement to include their home dir)

2. to use remsh/rsh but use to more common admin practice of setting up an /usr/rbin directory where restricted users have the commands they are allowed to run which can be safely executed by rsh.

See the man page on sh-posix (section on rsh).