You could try setting their shell to rsh (if it's available on your system)...on may *nix systems, rsh is a restricted shell, not allowing them to do much outside of their home dir. Keep in mind that chrooting them, however, as you describe below, means that they can't run most of the basic commands that live in /bin, /usr/bin, etc. On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Christopher Davis wrote: > With the recent thread on ssh -- > > Using ssh 2, has anyone had much luck with chrooting users > that log in remotely to restrict the user to their home > directory and the directories below it so they cannot even > view the higher directory structure? > > TIA! > Christopher Davis > > > > -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 To be notified of updates to the web site, visit http://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update, or send a message to: site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a message of: subscribe -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list