Locking user to home dir

iGMAS · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 May 2004 Posts: 83

How can I lock the user in his/her home dir so that he/she can't ls anything outside his/her home dir
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airman · Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 10:23 pm Post subject:

The ability to view a directory is dependent on the "execute" (x) right on the directory. If you remove this right, then the associated user/group/other will be unable to view the directory. So, you could remove "other" execute rights from all the directories on your system where you don't want users who aren't the owner or a member of an appropriate group to be able to see.

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20582

Moved from Other Things Gentoo.
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The Shadow Surfer · Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 11:30 am Post subject:

take a look at:
http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=jail
http://www.jmcresearch.com/projects/jail/

This way you can even ensure that the users don't fuck up the system, only there own part of it.