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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers how do U restrict a user to a single directory? Post 302228802 by itobenon on Monday 25th of August 2008 12:57:29 PM
Old 08-25-2008
I guess I should clarify some things...
when I said chroot wasn't an acceptable solution - I only meant by itself.

I do, in fact, use chroot; which limits the user ONLY to sftp.
In fact, my chroot jail, is about as lean as you can possibly have one. - the whole jail (excluding the home directory) contains only 20 files in total (~ 4M in size) - in only 3 directory's: /dev; /lib; and /usr (and /dev only contains null)

I guess in the ideal - if I could have a user chroot'd to their home directory (without the need for them to see those 3 directories), and if sftp existed in some "rsftp" version, where I could eliminate the 'cd' command (or restrict) it, and if I could have all of this in a form that's easy enough to delagate user maintenance, I would be perfectly happy.

It doesn't seem to me that, that's asking for alot...
I suppose the easy/delagate part may simply be me writing a bash script - I'm ok w/ that. But the rest seems to be very difficult to attain - which surprises me.
 

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Mojo::Home(3pm) 					User Contributed Perl Documentation					   Mojo::Home(3pm)

NAME

       Mojo::Home - Detect and access the project root directory in Mojo

SYNOPSIS

	 use Mojo::Home;

	 my $home = Mojo::Home->new;
	 $home->detect;

DESCRIPTION

       Mojo::Home is a container for home directories.

ATTRIBUTES

       Mojo::Home implements the following attributes.

   "app_class"
	 my $class = $home->app_class;
	 $home	   = $home->app_class('Foo::Bar');

       Application class.

METHODS

       Mojo::Home inherits all methods from Mojo::Base and implements the following new ones.

   "new"
	 my $home = Mojo::Home->new;
	 my $home = Mojo::Home->new('/home/sri/myapp');

       Construct a new Mojo::Home object.

   "detect"
	 $home = $home->detect;
	 $home = $home->detect('My::App');

       Detect home directory from the value of the "MOJO_HOME" environment variable or application class.

   "lib_dir"
	 my $path = $home->lib_dir;

       Path to "lib" directory of application.

   "list_files"
	 my $files = $home->list_files;
	 my $files = $home->list_files('foo/bar');

       Portably list all files recursively in directory relative to the home diectory.

	 $home->rel_file($home->list_files('templates/layouts')->[1]);

   "mojo_lib_dir"
	 my $path = $home->mojo_lib_dir;

       Path to "lib" directory in which Mojolicious is installed.

   "parse"
	 $home = $home->parse('/home/sri/myapp');

       Parse home directory.

   "rel_dir"
	 my $path = $home->rel_dir('foo/bar');

       Portably generate an absolute path for a directory relative to the home directory.

   "rel_file"
	 my $path = $home->rel_file('foo/bar.html');

       Portably generate an absolute path for a file relative to the home directory.

   "slurp_rel_file"
	 my $string = $home->slurp_rel_file('foo/bar.html');

       Portably read all data at once from file relative to the home directory.

	 my $content = $home->slurp_rel_file($home->list_files('public')->[1]);

   "to_string"
	 my $string = $home->to_string;
	 my $string = "$home";

       Home directory.

SEE ALSO

       Mojolicious, Mojolicious::Guides, <http://mojolicio.us>.

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