Remote Access restriction

From: Sugan Moodley (suganm@absa.co.za)
Date: Thu Feb 27 2003 - 08:17:38 EST


Hello,

I've got Sun Fire V880's running ORACLE databases on Solaris 8 02/02 with the db user called oracle9.

As part of our security policy it is required that this user not be allowed to login via telnet/ssh but instead the DBA must login on his own staff account and then su to the oracle user.

I am trying to achieve this without third party software so as to keep the system "neat and tidy" as possible. The solaris software companion CD is also installed. However, if relevant, I would like to use this resource only as a last resort. The reason for doing this is so that the Solaris OE does not end up looking/feeling like linux. I guess this is just a purist point of view and in no way implies that linux is bad or anything negative.

Someone told me to change the shell to /bin/false but that means staff cannot su at all to the account as well. Another option is to create some kind of wrapper script as a shell and then maybe exec to a real shell if requirements are met.

Any creative way to solve this?

Thank you.

Sugan Moodley
Unix Systems Administrator - Midrange Support
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