From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 19 14:30:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.outstep.com (a904j637.tower.wayne.edu [141.217.140.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD4A037B417 for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 14:30:33 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail.outstep.com (Postfix, from userid 48) id BC24E3BD9D; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 17:12:39 -0500 (EST) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD and Restricting Users Message-ID: <1008799959.3c2110d7b5406@mail.outstep.com> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 17:12:39 -0500 (EST) From: lonnie@outstep.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: IMP/PHP IMAP webmail program 2.2.5 X-Originating-IP: 192.168.1.12 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I have been looking at various possible solutions for a problem that we are working on and I am not sure if FreeBSD can handle it any better than Linux. The problem is this. We are setting up a SPECIALIZED Xserver that will allow users to connect to xdm via XDMCP. The basic problem is this. It is very easy to keep a user from entering into a directory after they have logged in, but it is VERY hard to keep a user locked into their HOME directory. We have looked at chrooted solutions as well, but they fail when a user logs in through XDM and start up an application like Netscape or StarOffice. Once that happens, they are free to navigate throughout the system. Can FreeBSD solve the problem of preventing a user from leaving their HOME directory while still allowing them to run OpenOffice? Best Regards, Lonnie Cumberland To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message