I need to create a user that only has access to 1 directory (e.g. /vol/mita/test). The user needs to be able to rsh into that directory to run a script. The user should not be able to navigate to any other directories above /vol/mita/test. Any help would be appreciated!

have his shell run a chroot to lock him in. Check out the man page on chroot for info.

Please forgive me, I am pretty new to this. I tried running the chroot command but with no success. If the user is "Mike" and the root directory should be /vol/mita/test , what would be the correct implementation of the chroot command?

Made some progress, however after reading through previous posts on this subject I found that I can simply add the chroot command into the /etc/passwd file

I am assuming that there needs to be a /bin directory (which originally would be located in /vol/mita/test/bin/) with the csh command in the directory. However, when I try to su "user", I get an error that says "no shell".

Any ideas? Am I implementing this command correctly?

Thanks
Nate

I well be well served to create a bin directory will all the utilities your chroot user need (including their shells) under their new root. They will not be able to execute code outside of their chroot environment.