On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Doug Koobs wrote:
> I've got a web server set up, and use SCP to upload content. All of the web page
> files are owned by apache:apache, with 775 permissions. I've set up a vendor with an
> account, and made his home directory /var/www/html. I added his account to the
> apache group so he can have full permissions on the files he will be editing,
> uploading, deleting, and so on via SCP.
>
> However, I'm not sure how to restrict him to that directory. I want him to able to
> cd around in /var/www/html and all subdirectories, but I don't want him to be able
> to cd out of the html directory. Short of setting up some kind of chroot
> environment, is there any way to do this?
>
> Doug
If you are giving him shell access to your box you need to do exactly
that if you want to contain him.
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