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Subject: Re: Setting permissions for a user
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:08:13 +0530
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Hi,
Assign the user an rbash shell.
Quite restrictive.
Thank You.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Bender" <abender@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: <questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2002 10:30 AM
Subject: Setting permissions for a user


>
> I would like to create an account to be used for FTP.  Since the password
> will be known by a couple people / could be sniffed since it's not sftp, I
> would obviously like to limit the powers of this user as much as possible.
> Specifically, I would like it to be able to create and read files in it's
> own directory, and that's it.  No execution capabilities, unable to read
> files not in its directory, etc.  What's the best way to do this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Adam
>
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