[clug] Linux user permissions

[Ian]

Hey Tim,

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Tim Murphy <tim at murphy.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>  I'm sure this will sound very basic to the majority of you, but I've never dealt with this before and have found myself stuck.  I have created a user on my ubuntu server and want to restrict that user to be able to view what's in his home folder only (basically so he can access the files I want him to via SFTP but nothing else).
>
>  Is there an easy way to do this?  I don't have X loaded so it's all got to be through the command line on a very slow connection.

I used to be able to do this with scponly (which restricts SSH to only
using SCP and SFTP and also provides a chrooted version), but the
chrooted version stopped working for me a while back and I haven't
bothered/motivated to figure out why.

-I

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