-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Sleep Dummy Shell (SleepShell). Copyright ©2004,2005 by Mario A. Valdez-Ramirez http://www.mariovaldez.net/ This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. You can contact Mario A. Valdez-Ramirez by email at mario@mariovaldez.org or paper mail at Olmos 809, San Nicolas, NL. 66495, Mexico. ========================================= 2005/12/01. ========================================= * About the Sleep Dummy Shell v0.0.2. This is a simple do-nothing, sleep-forever program that can be used as a login shell (in Linux or Unix) to keep the connection open but without interactive shell. We use it to create SSH accounts for users who will only use them for SSH-tunneling; to create an encrypted tunnel to our servers (for example to connect securely to database servers like mySQL, PostgreSQL, etc). Most restricted shells still allow execution of local commands from the SSH account. Setting the account shell to something like /bin/false (or any other simple programs) usually won't work because the tunnel is closed as soon as the program finish its execution. Sleep Dummy Shell just sleeps until its execution is terminated by the user or the tunnel is closed. The main page of the Sleep Dummy Shell is: http://www.mariovaldez.net/software/sleepshell/ ========================================= * Features of the Sleep Dummy Shell program. * Compiled, no scripting runtime needed. * For Linux and other Unix. * Minimal memory and CPU time consumption. * Simple to install. * Open source. Released under the GPL license. The Sleep Dummy Shell is the perfect solution for extranet, intranet and public hosting providers who wish to provide their customers with SSH accounts for encripted tunneling, without worrying about extra security. ========================================= * Download the Sleep Dummy Shell program. The SleepShell is available as a tar.gz package at http://www.mariovaldez.net/software/sleepshell/files/ Also you can find ther the Readme (readme.txt), Changelog (version.txt), checksums (checksums.txt) and license (license.txt) files. ========================================= * Questions, comments, suggestions. Don't hesitate to contact me by email (mario@mariovaldez.org). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0 iQCVAwUBQ4+u8DpHuYe8JiHtAQF98AP+Ms1KBoNMh+QU9gZuMGENRAFQ/ToMzBri 4FCQdzh9p3BT26GPIqDtzaNK2Lq33q2N0OetuYMQs01hN1tMOSmz92oN/jdy7n3l BrbFNaiWrTplGGmHplNw2fe5oOkdnOFNgztQyZmgYE+d47nD2NI70cDjnHkxgvvk enTvQDdZFjY= =yqRq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----