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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

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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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