Chroot users to them home dir

Forse · Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2003 9:37 pm Post subject: Chroot users to them home dir

Hi. Well the topic says it all. I was wondering how to chroot users to them home directory for security reasons. Thnx a lot in advance

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simcop2387 · Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2003 10:08 pm Post subject:

well i'm pretty sure this could create some major problems as far as being able to run any programs (/bin/ls even) since none of that would exist in the chrooted environment. but i would believe that placing something in the /etc/profile could manage that. if you are thinking about doing this for ftp clients, then you'll want to look into your ftp deamons docs

Delphiki · Guru Joined: 04 Oct 2002 Posts: 337 Location: A2

I think a better solution because of what simcop2387 mentioned, would be making more restrictive permissions on directories that you don't want the standard users to see.
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zaikick · n00b Joined: 12 Jul 2002 Posts: 3

I suggest looking at the Jail Chroot Project: http://www.gsyc.inf.uc3m.es/~assman/jail/. It's a tool that helps you set up the directories, libraries and binaries you would want your users to have access to.

Sholdn't be to difficult to set up, and there is even an ebuild in portage (app-misc/jail).

mglauche · Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2003 12:26 pm Post subject:

another solution might be a restricted shell .. I remember i saw something like this once, only few basic commands work