Would you provide jailed SSH by default in CloudLinux?

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Posted by martin33, 10-11-2014, 12:44 PM
Hi, Just would like to know what hosting companies admins are thinking about this. Would you provide SSH access to your customers on a cPanel server if CloudLinux is installed on the server, /proc is partially mounted, and you followed all the guidelines in the CloudLinux documentation, so one user cannot see the process of the other users? Am i correct saying now, in 2014, it should be fine to provide a customer you don't know with ssh access to your servers under those conditions? Thank you, Martin
Posted by Andei, 10-11-2014, 12:47 PM
Call me paranoid but I still wouldn't (and we don't) provide SSH access to any packages.
Posted by Patrick, 10-11-2014, 02:14 PM
Do you offer PHP, Perl or Cron access? When it comes to someone attempting to do something malicious, they can do the same exploits + commands using many other means without SSH access. Just something to think about.
Posted by Optimal Hosting, 10-11-2014, 02:52 PM
The whole "SSH is bad" mentality needs to die. If a provider /didn't/ offer SSH access that'd raise a red flag for me.
Posted by NoSupportLinuxHostin, 10-11-2014, 08:35 PM
Exactly. Well said.

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