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Date:      Tue, 1 Jul 2003 16:13:06 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
To:        nuckingfutsto@hotmail.com (Nucking Futs)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Account Privilege
Message-ID:  <200307012013.h61KD7Ot029298@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Law11-F63ZX5w8GVeoX0004c87d@hotmail.com> from "Nucking Futs" at Jul 01, 2003 03:10:55 PM

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> I'm trying to set up user accounts so that they can not view any further 
> than their home directory.  At the very least I don't want them to be able 
> to do a cd .. and view /usr/home and view the other user accounts 
> information. How would I set this up so they couldn't view other user 
> accounts or preferably any other part of the system.

What you need is chroot(8).
Use it to 'chroot' the user in to their own home directory.
Don't forget to put a copy of their shell and other things they
need within the directory where they are chrooted.

If chroot is not rigorous enough, check out jail(8).

////jerry
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