Archive for February, 2008

Lock an SSH user to their home directory

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Many of our users have asked how to restrict a user to a particular directories using OpenSSH. Here is a post from one of the OpenSSH devs describing how you can use the new ChrootDirectory feature to set that up. There are a variety of other ways to accomplish this using more traditional methods - if you’ve had success, please post in the comments and share.