Subject: Re: One more time
From: Peter M. Bagnall (pete@surfaceeffect.com)
Date: Thu Jan 04 2001 - 21:03:38 MST
>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:
>
> chmod 750 /
>
> would probably severely break your system (since no process
> could reach any directory under /).
>
> - Paul
Unless chroot helps you any. I'm not absolutely sure it'll do what
you want but it might be worth looking into
I had a quick play but couldn't get it to do what you're trying, but
maybe you'll have more luck
Pete
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