[wellylug] permission on /

[Enkidu]

On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 16:28:51 +1200, you wrote:

>
>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.
>
...or /usr/bin/passwd ? Hehe!

Cheers,

Cliff