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Operating Systems AIX How to restrict user to a particular directory? Post 302939909 by jim mcnamara on Monday 30th of March 2015 08:53:27 PM
Old 03-30-2015
It requires root o set up a chroot jail. Not to be the user trapped in one. If it was not AIX I would suggest chroot.

A chroot jail is:
1. user is limited to the commands you provide
2. user is trapped in his/her directory.

chroot comes from the fact that the root directory for a normal user is the / directory. chrrot manes to change the root directory, such that /home/joe becomes joe's / directory. He can only go down that directory tree to subdirectories.

The reason I am not taking a solid position is that AIX has some 'interesting' features that other UNIX flavors do not have. So for all I know that post I cited is correct. For solaris, for Linux, and for HPUX the answer is chroot jail. Since none of the AIX guys havde answered:

This is for a login account to a chroot jail using openssh.

The Best Linux Tutorials: Openssh with AIX chroot
 

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XPRINTF(3)						   BSD Library Functions Manual 						XPRINTF(3)

NAME
asxprintf, dxprintf, fxprintf, sxprintf, xprintf, vasxprintf, vdxprintf, vfxprintf, vsxprintf, vxprintf -- extensible printf SYNOPSIS
#include <printf.h> int asxprintf(char ** restrict ret, printf_domain_t restrict domain, locale_t restrict loc, const char * restrict format, ...); int dxprintf(int fd, printf_domain_t restrict domain, locale_t restrict loc, const char * restrict format, ...); int fxprintf(FILE * restrict stream, printf_domain_t restrict domain, locale_t restrict loc, const char * restrict format, ...); int sxprintf(char * restrict str, size_t size, printf_domain_t restrict domain, locale_t restrict loc, const char * restrict format, ...); int xprintf(printf_domain_t restrict domain, locale_t restrict loc, const char * restrict format, ...); #include <stdarg.h> int vasxprintf(char ** restrict ret, printf_domain_t restrict domain, locale_t restrict loc, const char * restrict format, va_list ap); int vdxprintf(int fd, printf_domain_t restrict domain, locale_t restrict loc, const char * restrict format, va_list ap); int vfxprintf(FILE * restrict stream, printf_domain_t restrict domain, locale_t restrict loc, const char * restrict format, va_list ap); int vsxprintf(char * restrict str, size_t size, printf_domain_t restrict domain, locale_t restrict loc, const char * restrict format, va_list ap); int vxprintf(printf_domain_t restrict domain, locale_t restrict loc, const char * restrict format, va_list ap); DESCRIPTION
These extensible printf (see xprintf(5)) variants behave like their normal printf counterparts (see printf(3)) without 'x' in the name (except sxprintf() and vsxprintf() behave like snprintf() and vsnprintf(), respectively). The domain argument must be a pointer to a printf domain structure, as returned by one of the functions described in xprintf_domain(3). The loc argument should be an extended locale (see xlocale(3)) or NULL, which means to use the current locale in effect (either the per-thread locale if set, or the global locale by default). SEE ALSO
printf(3), xlocale(3), xprintf_domain(3), xprintf(5) Darwin Aug 19, 2012 Darwin
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