remove rights from a user

utnalove · 10-21-2007, 08:16 AM

Hallo!

I created a normal user and I would like to remove the most rights as possible from this user. I would like this user to have the possibility to copy in his home folder just .jpg and .mp3 and give him the possibility to run ONLY the programs I want, for example skype and firewall.

Hope you can help me
Thanks

Dinithion · 10-21-2007, 09:07 AM

I haven't done anything similar myself, but I believe you're comming short with userrights if you are using the standard unixrights. To exclude apps. to run from one specific user, you will have to use ACL.

tkharris · 10-21-2007, 09:09 AM

You could create a chroot'ed environment for them to let them do whatever they want without messing up your server: hacktavista [ dot ] com / howto / chroot_slackware.html ( Apparently I'm not allowed to post urls? )