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Old 07-03-2004, 02:38 AM   #1
supervillan
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Restricting users to their home folder

I'd like to restrict the users to their home folder only but I couldn't find a clear tutorial on how to do this. I read somewhere that it can be done by appending /./ to their home path in /etc/passwd. I did this and users could still navigate higher than their home folder.
 
Old 07-03-2004, 05:00 AM   #2
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What your looking for is called chroot'ing. Do a search on this site for chroot or try google. I'd tell you how to do it but I haven't done anything like that in a while and I don't remember the steps exactly.
 
Old 04-08-2009, 11:47 AM   #3
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May be you can try `jailkit`
 
  


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