how to prevent users navigating to certain directories

ginda · 12-15-2006, 02:14 PM

I am using fedora core 6 and i would like to prevent users cd into certain directories for example how normal users cannot cd into the root directory.

$ cd /root/
bash: cd: /root/: Permission denied

Thanks in advance

bitva · 12-15-2006, 02:32 PM

chmod is how you can set/remove permissions on folders/files.

chmod go-rwx /usr/local/folder

would remove the group and other (guest basically) users from reading, writing and executing anything in /usr/local/folder.

man chmod for more info.