Default security: other users can ACCESS MY HOMEDIR?!

Kevin Kinsey kdk at daleco.biz
Thu Mar 3 01:01:23 GMT 2005


Nick Pavlica wrote:

>I was thinking along the lines of a scp server that would only allow
>the user to browse only there directories.
>
>
>On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 18:39:43 +0100 (CET), Stevan Tiefert <stevan at rot-1.de> wrote:
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>>On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Nick Pavlica wrote:
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>>>How would you restrict regular users from accessing any part of the
>>>file system accept there home dirs?  Is this even possible?
>>>
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>>Hello Nick,
>>
>>it is possible but why? The user must be able to access their shells,
>>configurations and so on!
>>
>>With regards
>>Stevan Tiefert
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>>

You might look at MAC (Chapter 15 of the handbook).  I don't
grok it yet, so I can't say if it's exactly what you need.  It could
be a lot more ...

Kevin Kinsey


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