It depends on how *learned* your user are... You can rename sh to rsh and it becomes restricted shell. Next put the path as /rbin in .profile file of each user. Populate the rbin with the files you want your user to run. The restricted shell does not permit cd and many other command which allows to break the restricted shell. But remember the restricted shell can be broken if user has little knowledge of *nixes.
Best Regards, Mukund Deshmukh, Director, Beta Computronics Pvt Ltd, Nagpur. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 7:01 PM Subject: [LIH]Refined rights to users | Hello, | Is there a way in which I could restrict access to other users on my | machine to all commands other than a few choosen ones like ls, mv,cp | and so on? | A friend of mine suggested that give access to /usr/bin and /bin | directories only to root. Then copy the necessary commands to | another directory say /my_bin and then give rights to group and | others execute permissions. Finally modify the path to include the | /my_bin directory. | I have not tried the above method... but is there a simpler way to do | this? | | I want to know how to do this in linux like we do in win2k, where you | can give such refined rights to users easily. | | thanks | ravi | | -- | http://www.fastmail.fm - I mean, what is it about a decent email service? | | | ------------------------------------------------------- | This SF. Net email is sponsored by: GoToMyPC | GoToMyPC is the fast, easy and secure way to access your computer from | any Web browser or wireless device. Click here to Try it Free! | https://www.gotomypc.com/tr/OSDN/AW/Q4_2003/t/g22lp?Target=mm/g22lp.tmpl | _______________________________________________ | linux-india-help mailing list | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
