On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Tom T. Thai wrote:

: Is it possible to lock telnet or ftp users into their home dir and not
: allow them to go outside or up higher in the dir tree?

Not telnet, but you can chroot ftp in this way by putting the user's ID into
/etc/ftpchroot (add this file if it does not exist).

Chrooting telnet requires setting up a tree of executables, or a portal
filesystem, underneath the user's home directory.

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-- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com)