Sounds like a flavor of chroot. Probably more trouble than it's worth because it's probably fairly tricky.
/* Quoth Richard Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 12 May 2004 at 00:36 -0700 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> */ > I agree with you; I don't want to change all of my directories to chmod > 700 or chmod 750 so that "Others" can't see anything. I guess I was > wondering more on the lines of making SSH limit their view to nothing > higher than their own home directory. The shared hosting companies do > that -- I can only see my home directory and nothing more, but I know > other people are hosted on the same machine. I think I'll try asking > them (in a round-about way.) > > Richard > > > On May 11, 2004, at 10:41 PM, Scott Paul Robertson wrote: > > >On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 04:23:50PM -0700, Richard Miller wrote: > >>I signed up for Linode.com per the recommendations of several other > >>UUG'ers and I have really liked it! Thanks! > >> > >>I want to use my Linode to informally host several friends' websites. > >>I've learned how to create new users, passwords, home directories, and > >>VirtualHosts (all of which took a while), but the question of the hour > >>is how can I limit each user to only seeing his or her own Home > >>directory when ssh'ing in? > >> > > > >If you're just looking for them to not be able to get to other home > >directories, ensure that each home directory's permissions (with ls -l) > >look something like: > > > >drwx------ user group > > > >This will prevent anyone (except root) other than that user from > >accessing the directory. This is usually the default when users are > >made. > > > >Now if you're looking to prevent them from looking at the root of the > >system, you'll need to do a little more. But, changing permissions on > >the root of the filesystem, and various sub-directories is not always > >good. While it'll prevent your users from getting to them, it'll > >prevent > >programs from getting to them. very bad. Thankfully your users can't > >edit these files (with rare, intentional, exceptions) due to only root > >having write permission. > > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- .O. Hans Fugal | De gustibus non disputandum est. ..O http://hans.fugal.net | Debian, vim, mutt, ruby, text, gpg OOO | WindowMaker, gaim, UTF-8, RISC, JS Bach --------------------------------------------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 6940 87C5 6610 567F 1E95 CB5E FC98 E8CD E0AA D460
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