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To: Gerard Samuel <gsam@trini0.org>
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Subject: Re: Restricting user
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From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com>
Date: 30 Aug 2002 13:04:02 -0400
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Gerard Samuel <gsam@trini0.org> writes:

> I would like to restrict a user to their home directory.

The canonical answers are jail(8) and chroot(8).

> jail seems to be just for processes.

The distinction escapes me.  If a user's processes are jailed, the
user can't do anything outside of the jail.  jail(8) is the most
secure approach to this problem.

> What else is there that I can look at.

Several shells have "secure" modes, but they're not really intended
for security purposes.  A malicious attacker can get out of those
modes fairly easily.

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