controlled access

venkat · Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2004 2:09 am Post subject: controlled access

Hi All,

I have few questions regarding SSH. I have a working SSHD/dynamic DNS/port forwarding. I want to provide some remote storage access to my friends. Is there a way by which I can provide a very limited access (say access only to a specific directory on my system)?

I do not want them to have a look at my configuration files (say in /etc/) and all that. If it's only a data directory I can do this using permissions & ownerships. But I am not inclined to change default permissions (mostly 755) on these configuration files.

Is there any other way to doing this better?

Many thanks to all of you.

Venkat.

Little Nemo · Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2004 2:03 pm Post subject:

That seems like a typical case for a chroot environment.

venkat · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2004 11:41 pm Post subject:

thanks. looks like chroot jail might be an option. gotta explore more on it.