Re: [cobalt-users] chrooted telnet access

[Luc Schiltz <becher@xxxxxx>]

> Luc Schiltz wrote:

>> does anybody know why cobalt doesn't use chrooted telnet accounts ?

> Probably because the box was designed for web-hosting, not for dialup or
> telnet customers.

>> this would allow the isp to give away shell accounts and users would be
>> limited
>> to their e.g. /home/sites/www.domain.com/web directory

> What shell program do you recommend for this?  I'm thinking seriously of
> offering shell accounts.

we have once written a script in realtion with our virtual file system
but for your usage I would recommend the script http://phirate.ethos.co.nz/dev/srsh.tar.gz
or http://www.eq.net/software/chrsh-0.6.0.c

or http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs/tutorials/chroot-example.html


Luc

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