On 1/24/06, Iris Lames <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > how to chroot? > > Do you have a step by step outline so that I can follow. Please!
I think you have delve deeper to the question why would you like users to have shell access to the server in the first place. Ask yourself this question: Do my users need access to a shell to do their work? If not, end of story, change the shell of the users to /bin/false. If yes, then you have to seriously rethink of doing a front end software, menu shell like pdmenu or a browser application to access the server. 10 years ago, it's fine and even necessary to have a shell. But in this era, it's just too much hassle and overhead administrative wise to give users shell access. Even for a restricted shell. Sysadmins did not give you ls for a restricted shell? do "echo *" you now have a primitive ls. no vi? use echo for your editor. echo is hard to remove since it's a built-in shell command. mozcom few years ago closed their shell accounts. A good friend of mine who owns a web hosting company removed it few months ago when i gave him reasons not to give shell access to users. regards, Andre _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
