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Date:      Wed, 8 May 2002 16:08:21 -0600
From:      "Dalin S. Owen" <dowen@pstis.com>
To:        Anthony Schneider <aschneid@mail.slc.edu>
Cc:        security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Accounts with Restricted privileges
Message-ID:  <200205081608.21273.dowen@pstis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020508171717.A37592@mail.slc.edu>
References:  <200205081443.51457.dowen@pstis.com> <20020508171717.A37592@mail.slc.edu>

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On May 8, 2002 03:17 pm, you wrote:

Nope.  rbash disables "cd", remember? :)  I need to be able to browse=20
subdirectories.

> if you don't have any luck finding a shell with chrootability, you coul=
d
> easily write a simple setuid wrapper to chroot() and then execute rbash=
,
> where rbash is located within the chrooted file hierarchy.
> -Anthony.
>
> On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 02:43:51PM -0600, Dalin S. Owen wrote:
> > On May 8, 2002 10:31 am, Justin King wrote:
> >
> > Actually.. I am looking for the almost same answer... what about a
> > chroot-ed shell?  ie. they can "cd" forwards but not back beyond my
> > designated "/"... and I quote (from bash's manpage):
> >
> >        "When  a command that is found to be a shell script is exe-
> >        cuted (see COMMAND EXECUTION above), rbash turns  off  any
> >        restrictions in the shell spawned to execute the script."
> >
> > I don't want that.  I want all other processes to be chrooted too.  B=
y
> > now some of you are thinking "jail"... A jail won't cut it, because y=
ou
> > can't use quotas in a jail.
> >
> > Does anyone know to do this with bash, or any other shell?  I recall
> > someone talking about a shell that could do all of the above.
> >
> > Thanks!:)
> >
> > FreeBSD Rox, BTW!


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