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Mastering Bash

You're reading from   Mastering Bash A Step-by-Step Guide to working with Bash Programming and Shell Scripting

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784396879
Length 502 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Giorgio Zarrelli Giorgio Zarrelli
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Let's Start Programming 2. Operators FREE CHAPTER 3. Testing 4. Quoting and Escaping 5. Menus, Arrays, and Functions 6. Iterations 7. Plug into the Real World 8. We Want to Chat 9. Subshells, Signals, and Job Controls 10. Lets Make a Process Chat 11. Living as a Daemon 12. Remote Connections over SSH 13. Its Time for a Timer 14. Time for Safety

The sshd_config file

We will have a look at the directives that can be the most useful for our everyday service usage, but if we need to know all the details about all the configuration options, we can just invoke man:

man sshd_config

The main SSH daemon configuration file is located at the /etc/ssh/sshd_config event, though we can specify any file at the daemon startup using the -f option on the command line. That said, let's go through and have a look at the most interesting configuration bits:

  • AcceptEnv: This allows the client to copy the environment variable into the session environment sent by the client. It can be useful, but it can also be dangerous, and the default is not to accept any client environment variable.
  • AllowGroups: By default, the log in is only allowed for members from all groups available on the system, but with this directive, you can restrict it to...
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