Restrict Shell

[Fernando Ferri Wollner]

Hi,
I need to restrict a user in his $HOME directory but the user must be allowed to move to his $HOME subdirectories.
Does any one knows how to restrict this?

[Patrick Wallek]

Have a look at chroot.

I think that would suit your needs.

# man 1m chroot

for more information

[Steven E. Protter]

Restricted shell can by done as follows

vipw /etc/passwd

You will see the user shell, change it to this.

/usr/bin/rsh

That will give restricted shell and place the user in a chroot jail where they can't cd up the actual directory tree.

Their home directory will appear to be root to them.

SEP

[Chris Wong]

http://newfdawg.com/SHP-RestShell

Here is an overview on configuring the restricted shell. If you don't follow all steps, the user may be able to move outside their home directory.

- Chris

[Fernando Ferri Wollner]

i can not user rsh because rsh does not allow the user to change his directory, how i use chroot with this case?
thanks