I needed to give access to a user (a web developer) but didn’t want them to be able to go anywhere but their home directory. The server is running Ubuntu 9.10 x32. No GUI.<\/p>\n
A brief search found a shell called Iron Bars restricted SHell for linux (IBSH). This also allows you to prohibit certain commands from running.<\/p>\n
You can put whatever commands you want to allow in that file. Save it.<\/p>\n Login as the user and test it out. Try to cd \/etc or rm -rf \/ and see what happens.<\/p>\n ***EDIT*** I needed to give access to a user (a web developer) but didn’t want them to be able to go anywhere but their home directory. The server is running Ubuntu 9.10 x32. No GUI. A brief search found a shell called Iron Bars restricted SHell for linux (IBSH). This also allows you to prohibit certain … Continue reading Lock Users To Home Directory<\/span> wget http:\/\/downloads.sourceforge.net\/project\/ibsh\/ibsh-binary\/ibsh_debian_binary\/debian_ibsh.deb?use_mirror=cdnetworks-us-1<\/code>
\ndpkg -i debian_ibsh.deb<\/code>
\napt-get install -f<\/code>
\nnano \/etc\/ibsh\/globals.cmds<\/code><\/p>\nnano \/etc\/passwd<\/code>
\nChange the shell of the user to \/bin\/ibsh<\/p>\n
\nThe Link is http:\/\/downloads.sourceforge.net\/project\/ibsh\/ibsh\/ibsh-0.3a\/ibsh-0.3a-i386-linuxbsd-src.tar.gz?r=http%3A%2F%2Fsourceforge.net%2Fprojects%2Fibsh%2F&ts=1288626692&use_mirror=iweb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"