From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 19 14:14:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.outstep.com (a904j637.tower.wayne.edu [141.217.140.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3093E37B41A for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 14:14:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from VAIO (unknown [192.168.1.12]) by mail.outstep.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 063873BD9D for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 16:56:32 -0500 (EST) Received: by VAIO with Microsoft Mail id <01C188B0.4CDDA3E0@VAIO>; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 17:12:12 -0500 Message-ID: <01C188B0.4CDDA3E0@VAIO> From: Lonnie Cumberland To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: FreeBSD and restricting users Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 17:12:11 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I have been looking at various possible solutions for a problem that we = are working on and I am not sure if FreeBSD can handle it any better = than Linux. The problem is this. We are setting up a SPECIALIZED Xserver that will = allow users to connect to xdm via XDMCP. The basic problem is this. It is very easy to keep a user from entering = into a directory after they have logged in, but it is VERY hard to keep = a user locked into their HOME directory. We have looked at chrooted solutions as well, but they fail when a user = logs in through XDM and start up an application like Netscape or = StarOffice. Once that happens, they are free to navigate throughout the = system. Can FreeBSD solve the problem of preventing a user from leaving their = HOME directory while still allowing them to run OpenOffice? Best Regards, Lonnie Cumberland =20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message