Re: Restricting a shell user to his home dir ?
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On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 debi@niit.edu.pk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am learning a lot from this mailing list :). I have few shell users, i want to restrict their shell login to their home directories.
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> Like they should not be able to move around in the system and see other user's home directories.
>
> Any suggestions would be usefull.
>
> Regards
> Azher
>
I hope this might do the work.
# chmod o-r /home
#
If you want this by default, you'll have to set umask.
Also have a look at /etc/adduser.conf file
HTH
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