We have people remotely SSH into our box from our overseas branch in India, and I didn't want to create a home directory for every user at that branch. So, I plopped them into /home/shared so they could view our network shares, and therefore gain access to the folders for which they had permission (having set up groups and put each user into a group). Yesterday, I ended up deleting our Samba shares directory (/home/shared) because I was attempting to get rid of a user; Linux prompted me if I wanted to get rid of that user's files, and I hit ok without thinking, thereby wiping out most of our network.
I'm slowly but surely restoring everything, but I'm wondering how to approach remote SSH a bit more safely. I was thinking of having 1 SSH user only for our users to work with. Let me know if you require more information. OS is RedHat Linux 9, soon to be upgraded to RH Enterprise WS 3.0. - Eve - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
