Dear all,

how can i restrict a user from viewing others dirs except her own home dir after login?

I don't want a user to cd outside her own home directory.

thanks

Well usually you can set up a "chroot" which can jail users to a certain directory, but this is not recommended as it can be easily broken.

The easiest way to do what you want is just to create a user, and set up the files you DONT want them to access by running a command "chmod go-rwx *" (removes file's group, and other users from read, write, and execute permissions". System files are already generally secure from a random user messing with them (everything in /etc/ for example). SO really you want to apply that to other users' home directories. One example how :

cd /home/
chmod go-rwx bill/* -R

this will change the bill directory recursively (everything underneath bill)

Greetings,

You might try setting the user's shell to rbash. For more information, try: man bash

Hope that helps!
Stu...

I just run
which restricts users from reading, writing, and executing anything within those directories. It is not really necessary to do this recursively.