lock new user into home dir
 

Hi people,

Does someone know if its possible to create a user on redhat to lock that user in there homedirectory so its not possible to brows out of the home folder....

It is not really possible to do anything useful with this, as the user will not be able to run any program. Not even ls or bash. Why want to do this? If you really want it, you must copy a shell to the user's home directory then chroot to it. You may need other files in the home, and I am not sure how to do the chrooting, as only root can chroot.

cause i want to put a gameserver in his home and only give acces to a text editor and some build commands... are there other options to do it?

Look into either chroot or usermode linux. Chroot will require you to make a copy of your directory layout inside this users home direcotry. EVERYTHING that this user is going to need is going to have to be inside his directory. This includes copies of /etc, /bin, /proc, etc. So you will need to do some research into what each program is going to need access to.

The other option is to use usermode linux which lets you install a second copy of linux that is independent of the host, give the user access to that and he has his own "machine" that he can do what ever he want's with.

Wouldn't the right file permissions achieve the same result with a lot less trouble?