On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 02:19:09PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > Jay Sern Liew wrote: > >Greetings. > > > > Basically, I have this group of users, that I give SSH/SFTP access, > > but I > >don't want them to be able to see the complete file hierarchy and ``cd'' to > >them. I just want a user to be able to access the user's home, and that's > >it > > Look at the docs on the chroot command, this is what you want (I think) > I'm not 100% sure how to make sshd do a chroot when you log in, but I'd > be real surprised if it's terribly difficult to do. > > >Has anyone wanted to do this before? > > Absolutely, this is very common. > > >I was thinking, or maybe I > >could redirect that group of users to use a different version of the > >command > >``cd'' and ``ls'' so that it will only work within their home directories. > > You could, but that's probably a more difficult solution. > WIth "cd" it's effectively impossible to write a replacement for it. It's builtin into the shell, any program/script that does a cd cannot affect the current directory that is the parent of that script.
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