topic Re: home directory restriction in Operating System - HP-UX

home directory restriction

chetana07 — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:19:14 GMT

How to restrict a user to his home directory,who is using telnet to login?He should not be able to go to parent directory nor to child directory.

Re: home directory restriction

Dennis Handly — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:39:09 GMT

Setting the user's shell to rksh or rsh will not let the user use cd and other restrictions.

Re: home directory restriction

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:37:26 GMT

Shalom,

The methodology is called chroot

Better to be used with ssh though.

http://h21007.www2.hp.com/portal/download/files/unprot/hpux/MSLSecurityManagementTools.ppt

http://forums12.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do;HP-FORUMS-S-WPA-IDX=HKzZMHbxnb7QRbzY42Tlngkyjj8YsRzc2XJLGZvX5nH6pX3NHnMs!-1057370677!-1313371355?threadId=1114600

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Re: home directory restriction

wci — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:50:47 GMT

Change the shell to /usr/bin/rsh in /etc/passwd
on hp-ux for the specific user to restrict to rsh which will not allow to change directories.

Re: home directory restriction

Sajjad Sahir — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 06:50:32 GMT

just change users shell in /etc/passwd
u put restricted shell there
i mean rsh
rsh has a lot of features
once rsh shell is there he has a lot of limitation to use commands

Re: home directory restriction

chetana07 — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:10:48 GMT

thanks for the reply