Hey guys,

I have a fedora cloud server . How do i force a user to only see a particular folder when they log on? I would not want the user to be able to access or see any other folder than that one?

The reason y i ask is that we have a non-techie that needs to upload large amounts of files.

Any help would be great


ghandizzle

There are several things you can do. The first thing that comes to mind is that the individual might not need to log on to the server at all. They could use ftp from another machine to put the files on the server. Or you could export a directory for that person to mount via Samba or NFS.

Another approach would be to use a chroot jail.

You could use a restricted bash shell (rbash) and you could make their login script call a menu that logs off when they exit it.

All of these things are well documented. You should be able to find information on all of them using Google.