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Re: Why can't I?



On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 04:40:56PM +0200, Auke van der Gaast wrote:
> I'm trying to restrict users' access to only their home dir 
> (I don't want them to be able to see or reach / or even /home )
>     I've already wasted half a day on just that, I'd really appreciate 
> it if anyone could tell me what to do.

Why do you wish to do that?  Have you some specifically top-secret
system you're trying to run?  Never, not even on commercial shell
servers, have I seen such a setup.  It's just not the way things are
done in Unix.  There really isn't much to be gained by it, in any case.

noah

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