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by nickysielicki 4109 days ago
This is funny, I was just daydreaming about this yesterday during class.

What I was thinking is allowing anonymous SSH access with a VERY locked down shell (/bin/rbash [1]) and let them view that everything is in order with their own eyes.

You still REALLY can't make a system that the user can conclusively see isn't just for show. You could be shoving them into a jail/chroot that provides the illusion of transparency, but be serving them elsewhere.

I think that this might be the closest you'll ever come to user software freedom on hardware that they don't own. There are a lot of security concerns, though, so I think it's out of the question for any type of production environment. I'd love to see a proof of concept from someone though.

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/The-Restr...

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Not only is this possible to fake, it's probably easier to fake than to implement for real.