Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 16:31:31 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Lonnie Cumberland <lonnie@outstep.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD and restricting users Message-ID: <20011219223131.GC30574@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <01C188B0.4CDDA3E0@VAIO> References: <01C188B0.4CDDA3E0@VAIO>
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In the last episode (Dec 19), Lonnie Cumberland said: > 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? If you really truly don't want them seeing anything outside their $HOME, chroot is your only choice. Create a minimal /etc, /lib, /bin etc in each homedir and you should be set. Note you'll have to replicate most of /usr/X11R6 for any X app to work. What exactly are you trying to keep users from doing? A standard install should not expose any private info or leave directories incorrectly writable. Just because they can browse into /etc doesn't mean they can do anything. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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