how to chroot a user

[sys-sbd]

Hi,
Is there a mean to create a restricted login in order to give it just the rights to browse on it's
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I know that there is the rksh shell but it seems that the user don't access also to his own sub-directories.
Thanks for you advices

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

You should be able to edit '/etc/passwd' for the user that you want to "jail". You will need to put all the files and commands you want them to be able to run in their directory. The 'passwd' entry should look something like:

jail:xxxxxxxxxxxx:999:20:::/home/jail/./:/usr/bin/false

Regards!

...JRF...

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom sys-sdb,

If the rsh shell is used, the user needs commands like ls accessible in his/her home directory, otherwise the user can't see anything.

A chroot user is a user configured that his/her home directory, defined in /etc/passwd is the root.

That leaves no system fucntionality at the command prompt. Create a directory in the user home directory called bin.

Copy the ls and a few other critical command into the bin directory.

Set the PATH to include bin/

Now see if the user can see his/her home directory files.

You add functionality by adding needed commands to bin.

SEP