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Date:      Fri, 31 Jan 2003 14:19:09 -0500
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        Jay Sern Liew <jay@sendtech.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: restricting user's directory listing and changing
Message-ID:  <3E3ACC2D.5020506@potentialtech.com>
References:  <1044035168.3e3ab660cc8d5@horde-send.sendtech.net>

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Jay Sern Liew wrote:
> Greetings.
> 
>      Basically, I have this group of users, that I give SSH/SFTP access, but I
> don't want them to be able to see the complete file hierarchy and ``cd'' to
> them. I just want a user to be able to access the user's home, and that's it

Look at the docs on the chroot command, this is what you want (I think)
I'm not 100% sure how to make sshd do a chroot when you log in, but I'd
be real surprised if it's terribly difficult to do.

> Has anyone wanted to do this before?

Absolutely, this is very common.

> I was thinking, or maybe I
> could redirect that group of users to use a different version of the command
> ``cd'' and ``ls'' so that it will only work within their home directories.

You could, but that's probably a more difficult solution.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com


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