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Old 09-27-2001
resrtrict user to his home directory
Hello

How do i restrict a user only to his own directory so that he wont be able to cd to other directories.

say for excample there is user called xiamin then xiamin should be restricted to /usr/xiamin only.


i am on redhat linux

regards
Hrishy
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Old 09-27-2001
You could change the user's shell to "bash -r", which will not let them use `cd` at all. Will this work for you?
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Old 09-27-2001
Hello LivinFree

Thanx for a quick reply.is there anyway out thru which he can do cd to his own directory and not other directories

if there is a dir under /usr/xiamin/pics

then he should be able to cd to pics but if there is a dir under
/usr/sharon/pics then he shouldnt be bale to cd to that dirctory of sharon or pics under shraon.

regards
Hrishy
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Old 09-27-2001
Hmm, I've never used this method myself, but would you be able to chmod the user's shell?

Does anyopne else have experience with this?
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Old 09-27-2001
This matter came up before, you can see a solution that was provided previously at :

https://www.unix.com/showthread.php?s...=user+restrict


-gHoTi
 
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