Directory access limit question

[Finlay Dobbie]

FTP, SFTP, logging in to the Desktop, what?

 -- Finlay

On 29/05/07, Richard Peskin <rpeskin at rlpcon.com> wrote:
> 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:
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> > 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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