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Old 03-23-2005, 08:50 PM   #1
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how could i make a user stay in his or home dir

i don't want him or her to be able to change a dir nor even exec a script or program

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Old 03-23-2005, 09:10 PM   #2
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You need to investigate using chroot to keep users in their directory.

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nor even exec a script or program
Of course if you deny them ALL ability to run programs or scripts, there wouldn't be much point in using a computer, would there?
 
  


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