RE: [cobalt-users] Setting permissions

["Rodolfo J. Paiz \(E-mail\)" <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I have given a few people shell accounts to go along with
> their accounts.

Why? What is their need for shell access? You'll find that few hosting
provider allow this, since it's a huge security risk. HUGE. Also, there
really are very few things for which a hosted customer needs a shell prompt.

> What can I do to prevent them from seeing the files of other users in
> /home/sites/site1, site2, site3 and so on.

There's really not much you can do. Remember, these are websites, which *by
definition* must be world-readable. You can create a "chroot" environment
for the shell, where the user is restricted from going above a certain
directory (thus can't go anywhere else) but that is far beyond the scope of
this list.

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Rodolfo J. Paiz
rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>