From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 25 20:48:59 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 655EA16A4CE for ; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 20:48:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from defang10.net.ohio-state.edu (defang10.net.ohio-state.edu [128.146.216.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF68243D39 for ; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 20:48:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stein.175@osu.edu) Received: from RADIMRES14 (radimres14.med.ohio-state.edu [140.254.8.83]) j3PKmwX9031693 for ; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 16:48:58 -0400 Message-Id: <200504252048.j3PKmwX9031693@defang10.net.ohio-state.edu> From: "Olaf Stein" To: Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 16:48:57 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Thread-Index: AcVJ2C9Sxep2KPALTxWv26+Z4Abz0g== X-CanItPRO-Stream: outbound X-Spam-Score: undef - spam-scanning disabled X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: lock user to home directory - not with rbash X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 20:48:59 -0000 hi thanks for the advice on rbash i got it to work but it is to restricted in their home directories users should have full rw access as far as i tried rbash (bash -r) that is not possible (i can not even do a mkdir) i am doing something wrong or is this the goal of rbash (bash -r)?? is there any other way of giving users access to their home directory and shutting down anything else (even if read-only)?? thanks a lot for your help /olaf -------------------------------------------- Olaf Stein Research Scholar OSU Medical Center Department of Radiology Division of Imaging Research phone: 614-293-9983 cell: 614-589-9229