I'm still relatively new to Linux, but I'm giving it my best shot!

i'm using Fedora, and the GNOME desktop - if that makes a difference.

I have apache setup with the usual php etc... and ssh setup so users can login to change their website files etc.

What I need to be able to do is restrict these users (somehow) so that they can only access their own folder (home folder would be fine). I've searched the net (including these forums) for a way to do this.. but have only come across very complicated soln's (most related to FTP).

Any advice for me? simple instructions? I'm not worried about malicious users so much, but am more concerned about the stupidity factor.

thanks so much for any help...

L

You can either use tools like jailer, jailtool, chrootjail... to build jails for certain applications,
or you can use chrootssh: http://chrootssh.sourceforge.net/

thanks for your response... it's given me a better starting place! I found these instructions (Which seems to be fairly easy to follow).

Thoughts?

http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/chroot_ssh.html

You can also use rssh and scponly to allow only scp/sftp access to a chrooted directory.

thanks for the tips..

Got it sorted out using scponly - seems to work well!

L