Directory access limit question

[Richard Peskin]

It was some ISP server and I don't know the OS. My interest would  
have been to do this under OS X (or OS X server).
--dick peskin
On May 29, 2007, at 11:47 AM, Finlay Dobbie wrote:

> 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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