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Examples
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borg serve has special support for ssh forced commands (see ``authorized_keys``
example below): it will detect that you use such a forced command and extract
the value of the ``--restrict-to-path`` option(s).
It will then parse the original command that came from the client, makes sure
that it is also ``borg serve`` and enforce path restriction(s) as given by the
forced command. That way, other options given by the client (like ``--info`` or
``--umask``) are preserved (and are not fixed by the forced command).
Environment variables (such as BORG_XXX) contained in the original
command sent by the client are *not* interpreted, but ignored. If BORG_XXX environment
variables should be set on the ``borg serve`` side, then these must be set in system-specific
locations like ``/etc/environment`` or in the forced command itself (example below).
::
# Allow an SSH keypair to only run borg, and only have access to /path/to/repo.
# Use key options to disable unneeded and potentially dangerous SSH functionality.
# This will help to secure an automated remote backup system.
$ cat ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
command="borg serve --restrict-to-path /path/to/repo",restrict ssh-rsa AAAAB3[...]
# Set a BORG_XXX environment variable on the "borg serve" side
$ cat ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
command="export BORG_XXX=value; borg serve [...]",restrict ssh-rsa [...]
.. note::
The examples above use the ``restrict`` directive. This does automatically
block potential dangerous ssh features, even when they are added in a future
update. Thus, this option should be preferred.
If you're using openssh-server < 7.2, however, you have to explicitly specify
the ssh features to restrict and cannot simply use the restrict option as it
has been introduced in v7.2. We recommend to use
``no-port-forwarding,no-X11-forwarding,no-pty,no-agent-forwarding,no-user-rc``
in this case.