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how to setup a ssh acount with no terminal but port forwarding?

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Mar 15, 20264973 views
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Problem

I am trying to set up a new user account I can give to friends so they can SSH into my forward computer, and only allow forwarding of certain ports. I do not want my friends to have a shell, or be able to change what ports to where they are allowed to forward. example session: joe(friend) connects …

Error Output

ssh -N restricteduser@example.com -p443 -L8080:192.168.1.2:8080 -L1990:127.0.0.1:1990 -L25565:127.0.0.1:25565

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The simplest way that comes to mind for me is to disable SFTP, and change the shell to /usr/sbin/nologin or the like (a program that simply prints "This account is currently not available." and exits) If you have no worries about them storing files …

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