Messages in this thread |  | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Special Kernel Modification Results | Date | 5 Nov 2001 00:01:47 -0800 |
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Followup to: <1004926188.3be5f4ec7e622@mail.outstep.com> By author: lonnie@outstep.com In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > It is nice that in Linux a person can easily set permissions to > prevent someone from entering a particular directory, but for the > special projects when you want to somehow confine them to their HOME > directory then the standard permissions are somewhat illsuited for > the task. > > There is always the problem of being able to see the binaries from > the users directories if you were to lock them in. > > In any case, I am thinking that a combination of chroot and > hard-links might do the trick. >
Either that, or chroot and vfsbinds (mount --bind), which might actually serve you better (no one-filesystem limit.)
-hpa
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