On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 04:02:39PM -0500, Duane Winner wrote: > Hello, > > Does anybody know the best technique to accomplish this: > > We have a server that we use for mostly internal development, and run an > SSH server. > > We have an outsider who we want to allow to ssh into this server and do > some work. > > However, because he is an outsider, we don't want him roaming around our > server, moving, looking, doing, or anything outside of his own home > directory. > > How can I restrict him to his own home directory?
You could try using 'bash -r' as the shell for this user. The -r option puts bash in "restricted" mode. See bash(1). Roland -- R.F. Smith /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign r s m i t h @ x s 4 a l l . n l \ / No HTML/RTF in e-mail http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ X No Word docs in e-mail public key: http://www.keyserver.net / \ Respect for open standards
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