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Subject: Re: lock user to home directory - not with rbash
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Olaf Stein wrote:
> hi
>  
> thanks for the advice on rbash
> i got it to work but it is to restricted

Be careful what you ask for :)

> 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)??

The man page for bash(1) covers restricted bash pretty well under 
"RESTRICTED SHELL".

>  
> 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
>  

See Lowell Gilbert's response to your previous thread.

-Ash