03-20-2002
Locking in user to $HOME
Is there a very easy and configurable method to lock a user into their home directory?
I've checked on chroot() methodology.....but i'm not to excited about copying around ( or symlinking) libraries..binaries....etc.
Thought about altering the groups via chgrp...to only allow read access to $HOME. But that seems like alot of extra work.
I am hoping some of you more seasoned unix guru's out there, have a couple of tricks you can teach me!
BTW...the users are general.....will probably login via SSH...and will just drop of a few text files. I am allowing a group of individuals to log into one of my computers to test out the Linux OS. Mostly just pine....a little documentation..etc.
Thanks for your help!!
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LEARN ABOUT LINUX
login.access
LOGIN.ACCESS(5) BSD File Formats Manual LOGIN.ACCESS(5)
NAME
login.access -- login access control table
DESCRIPTION
The login.access file specifies on which ttys or from which hosts certain users are allowed to login.
At login, the /etc/login.access file is checked for the first entry that matches a specific user/host or user/tty combination. That entry can
either allow or deny login access to that user.
Each entry have three fields separated by colon:
o The first field indicates the permission given if the entry matches. It can be either ``+'' (allow access) or ``-'' (deny access) .
o The second field is a comma separated list of users or groups for which the current entry applies. NIS netgroups can used (if configured)
if preceeded by @. The magic string ALL matches all users. A group will match if the user is a member of that group, or it is the user's
primary group.
o The third field is a list of ttys, or network names. A network name can be either a hostname, a domain (indicated by a starting period),
or a netgroup. As with the user list, ALL matches anything. LOCAL matches a string not containing a period.
If the string EXCEPT is found in either the user or from list, the rest of the list are exceptions to the list before EXCEPT.
BUGS
If there's a user and a group with the same name, there is no way to make the group match if the user also matches.
SEE ALSO
login(1)
AUTHORS
The login_access() function was written by Wietse Venema. This manual page was written for Heimdal.
HEIMDAL March 21, 2003 HEIMDAL