On Fri Jan 28 2000 at 00:13, Manohar Pradhan wrote:
> Hello Everybody,
>
> Can anyone give me a brief hint how can i give FTP and TELNET access
> to my users so that they won't have access to the directories other
> than their home directory, ie, their home directory should be the
> Highest ROOT directory for their FTP and TELNET session and they
> shouldn't be able to go any higher in the file system tree. For
man chroot
But it won't be a satisfactory solution unless you work hard to build
~/bin and ~/lib and other such directories to provide them
with an environment that will allow them to do what they otherwise
need to do.
> example, if user 'USER' has home directory /home/USER then whenever he
> uses ftp(telnet) to the server, the highest directory he gets should be
> /home/USER and he should be able to access only /home/USER and its
> subdirectories, not others. (Actually, access can be controlled using
> Access-mode of files/directories but i would like to have /home/USER
> as / for this FTP and TELNET session).
>
> Any help/suggestion is highly appreciated.
>
> Thanks in Advance
>
> Manohar
Cheers
Tony
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