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by semi-extrinsic 697 days ago
Or in the authorized_keys file, prepend the public key with a specified command. This is then the only command that the user can execute when logging in with that particular key. To wit:

  command="/usr/bin/foo" ssh-ed25519 AAAA....
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I suppose this will also lock the user out of sftp and scp? Because otherwise they might be able to edit the authorized_keys file and run any command.
"I suppose this will also lock the user out of sftp and scp?"

No it wont! The specified command might provide sftp, scp, telnet or stream a film.

I stream a film at funky.nondeterministic.computer on port 22
hah

made me laugh

i had no idea about that, thank you!