On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 1998 at 08:06:02PM -0900, Adam Shand wrote: > > We wrote a simple C program which allows users to delete, rename (etc etc) > > files in their home directory, and also gives them access to Z-modem (this > > menu was written before PPP :-). > > Lynx does a reasonable file manager, but you can't hide .. from > their home directory, for example, unfortunately.
But you can make /home have permissions 751 and group-owned by a group that you pust trusted users in. That way, untrusted users won't see .. in the file listing, because they aren't allowed to read it. They _should_ be able to access (execute) it, though, or else they won't be able to read anything under it. When I tested ths, I noted that "lynx ." doesn't work as expected, because it can't find the current directory for some reason. "lynx $HOME" still complained, but worked. "cd /tmp ; lynx $HOME" seemed to work perfectly well. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
