Re: question..

["Kevin D. Colby" <kevin marcal com>]

>Is there a way to restric the "cd" command to specific users, so that when
>they execute the command it promps like "permision denied " or somthing
>similar ?

Now why on earth would you want that?!?!?
Even suppossing you did that, the absolute paths will _still_work_
and they can do everything they could before, just with a little
more typing.

>>1. you can give a user the restricted sh (rsh) ... that restricts a lot
>>of things like you mentioned above.  Look at its man pages for more info
>>on it.  there might even be restricted versions of the other shells but
>>i don't know off hand.

rsh is THE BALM THAT SOOTHES.

>>2. write a shell script that just exits and set that script to be their
>>shell.  I think that should work ...

Yeah it'd work great till someone broke out of the script.  ;^)

Seriously folks, check out rsh.  For limiting a user's filesystem
visibility scope, check out chroot (change their concept of '/'
to something like '/home/userhome'.)

        - Kevin Colby
          kevin marcal com

 -- I seem to be on a roll this morning...  ;^)