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Re: Locking a User to their home



That will lock them into their home directory for Shell Access, but
not for things like AFP shares...

A.


On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 12:07:50 -0400, James Dessart <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 10:55:30 -0500, email@hidden
> <email@hidden> wrote:
> > How do I lock a user to their home directory? I don't want them to be
> > able to come up out of their directory tree. Right now they can wander
> > about though they cannot do much. I want to keep the wandering down.
>
> You need to chroot them. I think you could set their shell to 'chroot
> /Users/username tcsh' or bash, or whatever. Then they only have shell
> built-in commands, and no access to other executables (other than any
> in their home directory). All they see is everything below the
> chrooted directory.
>
> James
>
>
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