[wellylug] permission on /

[Phillip Hutchings]

On 5/04/2004, at 3:56 PM, E.Chalaron wrote:

>> Then why not just remove their login access altogether?
>
> and install windows.... good idea. :-)
>
>> I assume you're trying to lock down your machine somehow - can you 
>> explain
>> what you're trying to achieve? Fiddling with permissions on / is 
>> probably
>> *not* what you want to do...
>
> I need a file server with some access rights on /home/joe for joe and
> /home/bill for bill, without the possibility for them to go anywhere 
> else.

FTP with a user chroot setup. That'd be the easiest way, just set the 
shell to /bin/false - they don't need to log in to a shell if it's a 
file server.
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