Re: Adding user and security?

[mukund <betacomp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Prasad Mhatre wrote:
> 
> What is the best way to add user in Linux with a seperate user home
> directory?
> 
Use perl script adduser of debian. 

> I installed Redhat 5.2 from PCQ and tried adding a user with..
> 
> adduser xyz
> 
> a directory is created automatically say /home/xyz
> but where are the homepages for this user?

You can hack adduser to write a standard home page to home directory.

> If the user opens a FTP session, what he gets is the comtent of /home/xyz
> and still he can see the contents of /etc and all other directories.

You have to configure ftp properly making /home/ftp as default
directory. Then user will not be able to go up from /home/ftp

> How can I restrict him to only his directory? Atleast he should not have
> access to the system files.
> I saw somewhere in the docs about security but was not able to capture the
> same properly.

Use pdksh shell with r option or rename pdksh to rsh and use this shell.
It is similar to what restricted shell vsnl uses.

> 
> Any suggestion are appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> Regards
> Prasad
> 
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manas garg wrote:
> 
> Well, my experience is that configuring samba is a very painful process.
> You have to really understand it and there are so many options that it
> becomes difficult to find your way through. I have seen quite a few people
> who attempted to do it but relinquished in between. Somehow, I survived

Well if you are using smb.conf of pcquest cd then you need to make
changes at 4-5 places only and it is well documented also. In fact samba
was the first thing I could configure when I installed linux for the
first time.


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