Re: Newbie: how do I limit a user to just a home directory?

Pat_Tongco_at_spamcdo.org
Date: 02/01/05

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    Date: 1 Feb 2005 19:08:18 GMT

    On 2005-02-01, Chris <anon> wrote:
    > I'd like to create a login where the user isn't able to escape from their
    > home directory. I don't want them to be able to see or access anything else
    > on the machine. My purpose is to allow customers to be able to log in using
    > SSH and use SCP to send me files by putting them in their home directory. I
    > don't want them to be able to do anything else.
    >
    > How do I configure things to make this happen?
    >
    > I'm using SuSE Linux 9.1 (2.6 kernel).
    >

    Try letting them log in in a restricted shell
    eg. bash -r 

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- Pat Tongco
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