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Subject: Re: Chroot and shell
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ptitoliv wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I am writing here because I am a little confused. I would want to give
> an access to someone on my FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE BOX but I want the
> envrionnement to be restricted to the home directory. So I am looking
> for a documentation for making chroot on FreeBsd but I can't find it.
> Maybe I am looking in a bad way ;(.

What context do you want this done in? If you give them FTP access you 
can chroot them by placing their name in /etc/ftpchroot.

If you want SSH access, you could use something like chrootssh or 
another of many similar utils.

DS