Subject: Re: One more time
From: Chuq Von Rospach (chuqui@plaidworks.com)
Date: Thu Jan 04 2001 - 20:48:37 MST
On 1/4/01 6:50 PM, "Paul J. Lucas" <pauljlucas@mac.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Matthew Hill wrote:
>
>> How would i keep a user in thier directory using telnet? I would like to
>> keep
>> them from be able to browse other directorys. So when they cd / it would go
>> back to there home directory instead of the real root directory.
>
> Forget it: you can't do it. Doing something like:
Actually, you could, but it'd take some serious hacking building a chrooted
environment. More work than it's worth. To put it bluntly, anyone you don't
trust enough to browse your filesystem, don't let on the system in the first
place.
-- We're visiting family for the holidays. Cover us.
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