From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 12 22:56:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA01346 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 22:56:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA01340 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 22:56:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id RAA27741; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 17:25:47 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id RAA04632; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 17:25:42 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981113172541.B781@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 17:25:41 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Jerry , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: limit user to home dir References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Jerry on Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 07:27:35PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 12 November 1998 at 19:27:35 -0500, Jerry wrote: > I'm sure there's a way but I can't find anything about it. Is there a way > to limit every user or users belonging to a group to their own home dir > when they ftp or telnet? ftp: Put the user's ID in /etc/ftpchroot. telnet: The answer *should* be "give him a restricted shell", but we don't appear to have one. It might work if you give him /usr/sbin/chroot /bin/sh as a shell in /etc/passwd, but I haven't tried it. man pages: ftpd(8), telnetd(8), chroot(8). Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message