On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 6:56 AM, Andrew Sayers < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1) Creating or modifying an account that has the necessary permissions > 2) Creating an SSH connection > 3) Destroying or reverting an account to its original state thread. > ... > Reliably doing (2) is a hard problem. The solution I had come up with > strikes me as a good solution for a common use case, but there's no way > to deal with the general case without introducing more complexity. Perhaps we could use reverse tunnels. The end user could reverse tunnel into some server trusted by the admin. See e.g. http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_SSH_Reverse_Tunnel Alternatively, perhaps we could do something like: mkfifo sshout mkfifo sshin ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] < sshin > sshout & bash < sshout > sshin & -- John C. McCabe-Dansted PhD Student University of Western Australia
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