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Overview

lshell is a shell coded in Python, that lets you restrict a user's environment to limited sets of commands, choose to enable/disable any command over SSH (e.g. SCP, SFTP, rsync, etc.), log user's commands, implement timing restriction, and more.

Download

• Current lshell version: 0.9.16
• You can download the latest version:

Source type	link
Github	https://github.com/ghantoos/lshell
Source	https://github.com/ghantoos/lshell/releases/download/0.9.16/lshell-0.9.16.tar.gz
Debian	http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=lshell
Fedora	https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/lshell
FreeBSD	http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/shells/lshell/
NetBSD / pkgsrc	http://pkgsrc.se/shells/lshell
Arch Linux	https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python2-lshell/

Documentation

• Installation - Installation description
• Configuration - Configuration description
• Todo - TODO list
• Usage - Usage description
• Use case - Description of a use case
• Ossec Integration - Monitor Lshell logs with Ossec
• Changelog - Complete changelog
• RPMBuild - Building your own RPM from the source tar.gz

Support

If you want to contribute to this project, please do not hesitate. You can:

• report a bug, please refer to the bug tracker here: https://github.com/ghantoos/lshell/issues.
• send me an email at <<MailTo(ghantoos AT SPAMFREE ghantoos DOT org)>>

Limited Shell (lshell) is licensed under GNU General Public License (GPL).

All contributions (including questions) are more than welcome.

Contribute

Check out the code from the https://github.com/ghantoos/lshell

And send me a patch. ;)

News

• 2012-03-15 lshell-0.9.16 released. https://github.com/ghantoos/lshell/blob/0.9.16/CHANGES
• 2012-03-15 lshell-0.9.15.1 released.
• 2012-03-13 lshell-0.9.15 released (security issue fixed above).
• 2010-05-04 lshell-0.9.14 released.
• 2010-05-04 lshell-0.9.13 released.
• 2010-05-04 lshell-0.9.12 released.
• 2010-05-04 lshell-0.9.11 released.
• 2010-03-08 lshell-0.9.10 released.
• 2010-03-07 lshell-0.9.9 released. (chose version 0.9.10 over this one)
• 2009-11-30 lshell-0.9.8 released.
• 2009-11-25 lshell-0.9.7 released (Warning: bugged version).
• 2009-09-09 lshell-0.9.6 released.
• 2009-07-28 lshell-0.9.5 released.
• 2009-06-09 lshell-0.9.4 released.
• 2009-04-13 lshell-0.9.3 released.
• 2009-04-05 lshell-0.9.2 released.
• 2009-03-25 lshell-0.9.1 released.
• 2009-03-09 lshell-0.9.0 released.