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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Changing directory on Unix Post 22439 by taher_n on Tuesday 4th of June 2002 01:04:49 AM
Old 06-04-2002
Changing directory on Unix
Hi,
Can you please help ? I work on SCO Unix Open server Rel. 5.
User root on Unix can change/view/modify any files belonging to any user on a file system.
Is there any way where I can prevent non-root users to change thier directories to other non-root users area.

for eg. There are 2 users User A and User B.
User A's home directory is /A
User B's home directory is /B

My objective is user A should not be allowed to change his pwd (present working directory) to /B and user A should also not be allowed to list the files which are stored in /B directory ( home of user B).

Setting necessary read-write-execute permissions does not prevent either users to change directories in each others area and they are still able to list what files are stored in each others directories.

Is there any way ?
Thanks for your time and regards.
Taher
 

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file::homedir::unix

File::HomeDir::Unix(3)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				    File::HomeDir::Unix(3)

NAME

       File::HomeDir::Unix - Find your home and other directories on legacy Unix

SYNOPSIS

	 use File::HomeDir;

	 # Find directories for the current user
	 $home	  = File::HomeDir->my_home;	   # /home/mylogin
	 $desktop = File::HomeDir->my_desktop;	   # All of these will...
	 $docs	  = File::HomeDir->my_documents;   # ...default to home...
	 $music   = File::HomeDir->my_music;	   # ...directory
	 $pics	  = File::HomeDir->my_pictures;    #
	 $videos  = File::HomeDir->my_videos;	   #
	 $data	  = File::HomeDir->my_data;	   #

DESCRIPTION

       This module provides implementations for determining common user directories.  In normal usage this module will always be used via
       File::HomeDir.

SUPPORT

       See the support section the main File::HomeDir module.

AUTHORS

       Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org>

       Sean M. Burke <sburke@cpan.org>

SEE ALSO

       File::HomeDir, File::HomeDir::Win32 (legacy)

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2005 - 2011 Adam Kennedy.

       Some parts copyright 2000 Sean M. Burke.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

       The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.

perl v5.16.3							    2012-10-19						    File::HomeDir::Unix(3)
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