On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 22:47, David Guntner wrote: > I have a user login name that is used to run a game server process > (Neverwinter Nights, if it matters :). > > I don't know if it's possible for a remote user to crash the game process > in a way which would leave them sitting in a shell, but since I don't know > that the chances are 0%, I'm thinking that having the login name chroot > jailed to its home directory would limit the damage that someone could do > if they *did* somehow manage to end up in a shell via a server process > crash. > > Is there a way to to this? > > --Dave >
Look at the user's line in /etc/password. At the end is the shell they'll be given. chroot them there. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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