On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 02:20:56PM +0800, Ivy Cabeza wrote: > hello people, > i'm tasked to permit users to login to a certain server via ssh2 but i > need to limit the user's access to a certain application. i've heard > sudo and chroot do something like this... chroot virtually alters the > topmost directory of a particular user; sudo permits ordinary users to > execute admin commands. > i want to hide some directories but let the user execute a command that > needs to "see" the normal directory structure of the system. is this > possible?
It's not possible if you chroot. It sounds like this application probably needs to either be the shell, or be executed from the .profile. Michael -- Michael Darrin Chaney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.michaelchaney.com/ -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
