Lock an SSH user to their home directory

Jeff Mancuso February 21st, 2008

Many of our users have asked how to restrict a user to a particular directories using OpenSSH. Here is a post from one of the OpenSSH devs describing how you can use the new ChrootDirectory feature to set that up. There are a variety of other ways to accomplish this using more traditional methods – if you’ve had success, please post in the comments and share.

3 Responses to “Lock an SSH user to their home directory”

  1. jackyy Says:

    Will give it a shot !! :)

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