Is forbidding concurrent ssh sessions a good idea?

Is forbidding concurrent ssh sessions a good idea?

Elazar Leibovich elazarl at gmail.com
Mon Nov 12 12:35:44 IST 2012


On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir at cohens.org.il>wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:05:02AM +0200, Elazar Leibovich wrote:
> > I'm considering to disallow concurrent ssh sessions on a single-purpose
> > production machine (say, DB server).
>
> Sessions != shells.
>

Of course, what I care about is the shell, not the transport.


> This would have badly broken my personal use case.
>

While I can certainly see what's broken with it for using a regular
computer, whose stability I do not value much, and while there are
difficulties this may cause, do you see anything specific that will break
in the use case of a production server?
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