[wellylug] ssh connection to send email?

Simon . ahlee_youp at hotmail.com
Fri Nov 26 11:19:09 NZDT 2004


If they are using port forwarding, chances are they have keys. You dont want 
your tunneled app to keep failing because of password prompts.

Simon

>From: Tim Carey-Smith <wellylug at halorgium.net>
>Reply-To: wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz
>To: wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz
>Subject: Re: [wellylug] ssh connection to send email?
>Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 11:16:02 +1300
>
>Simon . wrote:
>
>>sshd has a command option in the authorized key file, which could quite 
>>easily point to a mail script.
>>Have a look in man sshd, under the AUTHORIZED_KEYS FILE FORMAT section.
>
>This will only work if the users are logging in by using public-key 
>authentication!
>Of course, you could restrict them to this type of auth easily enough :D
>
>Tim
>
>
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