Subject: Re: locking users in their home dir?
To: Tom T. Thai <tomthai@future.net>
From: I can teach you how to fish... <greywolf@starwolf.starwolf.com>
List: current-users
Date: 10/20/1998 11:01:36
Ted Lemon sez:
/*
 * 
 * Sure, make all the directories above them world executable but not
 * world readable.

Does not prevent chdir()ing up from the target directory.

 * Directories in which executables live have to be
 * readable or shells that keep command hash tables won't work, though.

Not true.  The hash tables will fail, but I believe notes are kept
internally to mark non-hashable directories as such, or at the very
least, an exec[lv]p is called which will, via brute force, tromp
through the entire path before giving up.

 * And I don't know what else might break - you'd have to try it and
 * see.
 */





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