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Date:      Mon, 25 Apr 2005 14:08:06 -0400
From:      "Olaf Stein" <stein.175@osu.edu>
To:        "'Roland Smith'" <rsmith@xs4all.nl>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: lock user to home directory
Message-ID:  <200504251808.j3PI86mY029746@defang10.net.ohio-state.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20050425163410.GE98448@slackbox.xs4all.nl>

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Does not work

I changed the shell with chpass -s /usr/local/bin/bash -r or rbash
Chpass said that those are unvalid arguments but changed it anyway in
/etc/passwd
But user could not login anymore at all

Any other ideas??

Thanks
/olaf

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Roland Smith
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 12:34 PM
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc: Olaf Stein
Subject: Re: lock user to home directory

On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 10:51:00AM -0400, Olaf Stein wrote:
> hi everybody
>  
> is there an easy way to lock a user to his home directory??

Try giving them restricted bash (rbash, or bash -r) as shell.

Roland
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