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Limit users to a particular DIR tree.
Name: Steven Chen Date: March 4, 2002 at 12:03:21 Pacific
Comment:
How can I limit users to a particular directory tree? I download wuftp on my Solaris 8 and I am trying to limit a user to login my server via ftp and only allow this user to access one particular directory and it can not change or browse any other directory. Would someone give me some advise?
Name: ripon Date: March 4, 2002 at 22:57:40 Pacific
Reply:
Hi Steven, You can probably use restricted versions of the Korn shell (rksh) and Bourne shell (rsh) to limit the operations allowed for a particular user account. Restricted shells are especially useful for ensuring that time-sharing users, or users’ guests on a system, have restricted permissions during login sessions.
When an account is set up with a restricted shell, users cannot - Change directories, Set the $PATH variable, Specify path or command names beginning with / and Redirect output.
Users will have the full power of standard shell but with a limited menu of commands.
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