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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Restricting Telnet access
Date: 17 Aug 1995 10:39:30 +0200
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Big Dawwg <bigdawwg@aol.com> wrote:
>How do I go about restricting what a person can do when telneting into my
>system? The only privilage I want them to have is to be able to go into
>thier own directory to change out there home page files.

You will have to setup a chroot'ed environment if you wanna be on the
safe side.  This is a lot of work.
-- 
cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)