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Actually, I dont think I made myself clear... sorry. I don't want this user to be able to navigate out of their home directory - whether they are logged in using FTP, telnet, SSH, etc...

For some...

Anyone?

Changing to 700 worked. Thanks.

One other thing I noticed though is that if I login through telnet or SSH with this new user, I cannot change directory or list whats in the directory:...

OS: Solaris 9

commands: useradd <username>
usermod -d <path> <username>
relevant output of passwd:

username:x:555:444::/export/home/mydir/:/usr/bin/rksh


ls -l /export/home
...

Yes, and it is owned by this new user.

As a side note, this new user is using a restricted shell upon login. Could that have something to do with it?

I created a new user and changed their home directory to /export/home/mydir/ I verified in the passwd file that the home directory is set to the above and that owner of that directory is the new user...