Date: 30 Aug 2002 13:04:02 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: Gerard Samuel <gsam@trini0.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Restricting user Message-ID: <44u1lc6zy5.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <3D6F9A15.5020308@trini0.org> References: <3D6F9A15.5020308@trini0.org>
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Gerard Samuel <gsam@trini0.org> writes: > I would like to restrict a user to their home directory. The canonical answers are jail(8) and chroot(8). > jail seems to be just for processes. The distinction escapes me. If a user's processes are jailed, the user can't do anything outside of the jail. jail(8) is the most secure approach to this problem. > What else is there that I can look at. Several shells have "secure" modes, but they're not really intended for security purposes. A malicious attacker can get out of those modes fairly easily. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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