Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 15:44:31 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: mike <mike@coloradosurf.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: chrooting home dirs Message-ID: <20011113154431.D61915@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <20011113102327.A58425@coloradosurf.com>; from mike@coloradosurf.com on Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 10:23:27AM -0700 References: <20011113102327.A58425@coloradosurf.com>
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On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 10:23:27AM -0700, mike wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to chroot local users to the home directories when they ssh
> in to the machine. `man 8 chroot` was not as enlightening as I had hoped ;).
>
> Can someone please refer me to information on how I would set up chrooted
> home directories? The purpose of this is mainly to keep shell users in
> their own directories (and not nosing about in others').
You are probably best off just assigning user's directories with the
appropriate permissions, 0700 or something else restrictive.
OpenSSH does not natively support chroot(8)ing users. Doing so and
still having useful environments for the users is non-trivial.
--
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| cjclark@jhu.edu
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