Delete /home/shared Samba directory; need better SSH solution!

Eve Atley
2005-02-09T15:53:17Z

We have people remotely SSH into our box from our overseas branch in India,
and I didn't want to create a home directory for every user at that branch.
So, I plopped them into /home/shared so they could view our network shares,
and therefore gain access to the folders for which they had permission
(having set up groups and put each user into a group). Yesterday, I ended up
deleting our Samba shares directory (/home/shared) because I was attempting
to get rid of a user; Linux prompted me if I wanted to get rid of that
user's files, and I hit ok without thinking, thereby wiping out most of our
network.

I'm slowly but surely restoring everything, but I'm wondering how to
approach remote SSH a bit more safely. I was thinking of having 1 SSH user
only for our users to work with.

Let me know if you require more information. OS is RedHat Linux 9, soon to
be upgraded to RH Enterprise WS 3.0.

- Eve