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From: gbuchanan@on.sympatico.ca (Gardner Buchanan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Restricted Shell?
Date: 19 Apr 1997 15:39:36 GMT
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In article <5j8i17$5mt@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
> whuff@airnet.net (Walter Huff) wrote:
>
>> I need to provide a user restricted access to a FreeBSD machine which
>> I administer.
>
>
> If you really need to give somebody restricted shell access, consider
> the (hard) work of setting up a chroot environment. Still, he can
> abuse the network connections (if there are any), but it's way safer
> than what any restricted shell could offer you.
>
I was doing this very thing not too long ago - I gave up since it was
not actually very important to be secure. I was thinking that loopback
mounts would've helped muchly though.
Are there any plans to add loopback mounts to FreeBSD?
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Gardner Buchanan <gbuchanan@sympatico.ca>
Ottawa, ON