man chroot is one answer. sh and bash often have restricted modes which
also do something like thing, usually called rbash or rsh (not related to
the rsh remote shell command)
That said, there are better lists and newsgroups for these kind of
questions.
Bob N2KGO
(who shouldn't be answering off topic email)
On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, EA3BKZ, Salvador Caballe wrote:
> Hello,
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> is there a simple to way configure a user to limit his access only to
> home directory,(included to read privilege outside \home).
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> Without to change all files permissions
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> Best 73 and happy new Year!!
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