CHROOT for selected users users

Tim Wunder tim
Mon May 17 11:32:45 PDT 2004


On 6/4/2002 4:21 PM, someone claiming to be Federico Voges wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to know if there's an easy way to chroot some users to their home dir 
> (ala guest class in wu-ftpd).
> 
> I'm setting up a webhosting server and I don't want clients-users wandering 
> around the filesystem.
> 
> Ideally, it should work with Telnet and SSH. But I think I'll only allow users 
> to acces via SSH/SCP (no Telnet/FTP). I've been using PuTTY+WinSCP2 on 
> windows and they're very user friendly.
> 

This looks interesting, http://tjw.org/chroot-login-HOWTO/

HTH,
Tim






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