On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 04:23:50PM -0700, Richard Miller wrote: > 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?
Standard UNIX filesystem permissions will keep people from snooping
where you don't want them to. Where that may not work for you, you
may want to look into ACL's. There are ways to accomplish this using
chroot too. Have you Google'd about this?
Mike
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