Gentoo Archives: gentoo-server

From: Tim Daniel Schumacher <tim@××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Restricted IRC Client
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 13:41:46
Message-Id: 200508221542.10827.tim@we-are-teh-b.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-server] Restricted IRC Client by Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
1 Hi Arturo,
2
3 Am Montag, 22. August 2005 14:44 schrieb Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman:
4 > People, I'm looking for a restricted irc client so I can provide an
5 > outside user access to an IRC network. So, this guy would ssh/telnet to me,
6 > and having hisuser set to an irc-client shell, automatically get the irc
7 > client executed. So, why I need a restricted client (or sandbox/cage) is
8 > now obvious. I've thought of different methods, but all of them have flaws
9 > in my head, and I need your advice here.
10
11 Do you realy need ssh/telnet? What about CGI:IRC[1]? It is a very flexible
12 IRC-client written in perl for use on a homepage.
13 In case of a consolebased IRC-client you might want to look at irssi[2], which
14 is very powerfull, but I realy don't know if it is possible to restrict
15 commands. To restrict them for gaining access to the rest of the filesystem
16 you can use a chroot environment, I think there must be many howtos
17 describing this case.
18
19 HTH
20
21 Tim
22
23 [1] http://cgiirc.sourceforge.net/
24 [2] http://www.irssi.org/
25
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27 http://we-are-teh-b.org/~tim/