On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 03:31:34AM +1000, Minh Van Le wrote:
> Is there a way to confine shell login users to their ~/ directory ?
>
> Even have "/" as an alias for ~/ ? as I believe this has some security
> benefits.
>
> I'm trying to create a shell environment like FTP where the user's root
> directory is their home directory, while still execution permissions on
> the common binaries.
He's back. And this time he's got a chainsaw.
- Al Viro announcing per-process namespaces on lkml
this is probably not going to be helpful right now, but there
are patches for this in Linux in development which will almost
definitely be in the main kernel. if you're feeling
adventurous, go to ftp://ftp.math.psu.edu/pub/viro and check out
the 'namespace' patches there. they will give every single
process their own directory tree.
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