I definitely did some Googling for this, but I hadn't heard of Access Control Lists before. I'll read up on them. Thanks.

Richard


On May 12, 2004, at 5:31 AM, Michael Halcrow wrote:

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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