Directory access limit question

John C. Welch jwelch at bynkii.com
Tue May 29 08:58:26 PDT 2007


On 5/29/07 10:15, "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.

Under what protocol? Doing this, ("chroot") with things like AFP/SMB/FTP is
trivial. With SSH, not so much. What kind of access are you specifically
talking about?

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