Re: How to limit new user accessing other files?

> In order to give a good answer, we have to know what you do
> want to let them do.  if you don't want them to have a shell
> at all, then change their shell to:
> /sbin/nologin
>
> if your system does not have that, then set it to:
> /bin/false
>
> here is the command from useradd:
> useradd -s /sbin/nologin
>
> HG wrote:
>
>>If I create a user account by using "useradd" and "passwd" under root
>> in Linux, how could I limit the user to access other files and avoid
>> disasters if they access our server through SSH ?
>>
>>
>
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>

this is a very interesting topic. A did a search for "sftp chroot" and got
a lot of answers but setup up a chrooted scp or/and ssh enrironment seems
hard.

Any idea?