Giving SSH to users safe ?

[sunzeal]

Hi

Was wondering, if giving SSH to users is safe ?

I am not v sure, i have not changed any ssh settings or stuff, all things are default from Direct Admin.

 

[SeLLeRoNe]

No, is not safe in most of the case.

Regards

 

[sunzeal]

why would that be , can you please explain, m noob.

I have seen many hosting providers providing SSH via cPanel, so it has to be safe in cPanel and that's why they provide, i assume.!

So, any problem in SSH settings in Direct Admin ?

 

[zEitEr]

Why would ever an average shared hosting user wanted to have SSH? Note, if you ask such questions, then you really new to the subject, and without having a good system administrator you'd better not give SSH access to your customers. Directadmin by itself has no tools to control what an user do in a shell, but it offers Jailed shell, which could give you some protection

http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=90

But it's still beta, and you can face some issues while using it.

 

[nobaloney]

I am not v sure, i have not changed any ssh settings or stuff, all things are default from Direct Admin.

Many of us consider giving shell access to be unsafe for several reasons:

Shell access users can read a lot of files, including a list of all usernames on the system, and most configuration files (though not passwords in a properly configured system).

Shell access users can run many programs on your server and access daemons directly, to, for example, do things such as set up their own email programs to spam without email getting into your logs.

Whether you consider it safe or not is up to you. If people request shell access from us we sell them a VPS, and watch their traffic carefully.

Jeff