Directory access limit question

Finlay Dobbie finlay.dobbie at gmail.com
Tue May 29 08:47:03 PDT 2007


What kind of server? This is called a chroot, and you can't do it on
OS X in general.

On 29/05/07, Richard Peskin <rpeskin at rlpcon.com> wrote:
> I have encountered a server where user directory access is limited in
> the following sense. Instead of "/" referring to the actual root
> directory, "/" refers to the user's home directory. That is, when the
> user accesses (for example) "/somedir",  "somedir" is a directory
> found at the top level of the user's home directory, not a directory
> found under the real root.
>
> How can one set up this sort of thing?
>
> thanks,
> --dick peskin
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