SSH drop boxes - Limiting users to the one directory?

[sgoldman]

Thank you,
Dan


Stephen Goldman
System Administrator
MIT Biology
sgoldman-3s7WtUTddSA at public.gmane.org

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Ritter" <dsr-mzpnVDyJpH4k7aNtvndDlA at public.gmane.org>
To: "sgoldman" <sgoldman-DPNOqEs/LNQ at public.gmane.org>
Cc: <discuss-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org>; <dsr-copies-mzpnVDyJpH4k7aNtvndDlA at public.gmane.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 10:05 PM
Subject: Re: SSH drop boxes - Limiting users to the one directory?


> On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 11:10:22AM -0400, sgoldman wrote:
>> Hello Blu,
>>             My customer asked for a Linux box to share data to his 
>> customers. I am in the process doing testing.
>>
>>            The idea is each user will have a ssh drop box on a SUSE 10 
>> machine.
>>
>>             The structure would be :
>>              /datastore/sales          permissions 700
>>             /datastore/shipping       permissions 700
>>             /datastore/support        permissions 700
>>
>
> The mechanism you are looking for is called a chroot jail.
> Google will help.
>
> -dsr-
> 


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