Well, I was just thinking back to the days of Novell and seem to remember that
when a user logged in, they were mapped into their own user space and generally
did not have access to other areas.
I though that this was a nice security issue.
Also, the users could run applications by having a local "bin" link and path
setting.
I was just playing with some ideas and wanted to investigate them.
Cheers,
Lonnie
Quoting Mordechai Ovits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Thursday 09 August 2001 04:18, you wrote:
> > I know that you can change permissions on directories to prevent a
> user
> > from entering a specific directory tree, but is there a way to prevent
> a
> > user from exiting out of a specific directory?
>
> No, not really. There's something called chroot, but it wont do what
> you
> want. Think about it: If they cant leave their home dir, how would
> they run
> things in /usr/bin ?
>
> > For example, is there a way to prevent the users from leaving their
> own
> > home directories?
>
> Please clarify what you mean by leave? Do you not want them to be able
> to
> see the contents of ANY other directory? And why?!?!?
>
> Mordy
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