RE: [cobalt-users] Setting permissions

[Weihan Leow <wleow@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you Thom.  A LOT of webhosting providers provide shell access either
via SSH/Telnet.  I personally would not sign up with a provider if I was
not granted shell access.  Editing files through the shell is much mor
easier than doing it locally then ftp'ing it up.  You have your opinions
and I have mine.  Instead of crticizing or assuming what expierience I
have, why don't you do what Thom said and if you know, point us in the
right direction for chroot.

On another hand.  What if I chmod'ed each directory 711 by hand.  Wouldn't
that prevent people from ls'ing the dirs?

-Weihan

On Fri, 5 Jan 2001 baltimoremd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Rodolfo J. Paiz (E-mail) wrote:
> 
> > > 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.
> 
> I think if you pose the shell access question to a cross section of
> providers, you'll find that many allow shell access via telnet, and many
> provide it via ssh.
> 
> Not to argue the safety and/or merit of shell access, there are many
> providers that offer it. 
> 
> From my limited observations, it seem Cobalt based providers are hesitant
> to provide shell access.
>  
> > 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.
> 
> While it might be beyond the scope of this list, perhaps a reference to
> a source of information for using the chroot environment might be of
help
> to those who feel a need to offer shell access.
> 
> Thom
> 
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