Yesterday I installed Fedora 14 on my computer. I was able to log in as root on a terminal fine until this morning. Now when I log in I get this:
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[Silverback@Vanessa ~]$ su -
Password:
su: warning: cannot change directory to /root: No such file or directory
-bash-4.1#
I haven't deleted any files, so I have no idea how to fix this.
For a user on a Linux host, I need to make everything inaccessible besides his home directory. I have heard that this is usually done by changing the root directory for the user (and setting it to the user's home directory), however I couldn't find the way to do it.
I thought about the chroot command, but it seems it just runs the specified command, considering the specified directory as the root directory. So it seems chroot is not what i need. So my question is: what is the command which changes the user's root directory?
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I am trying to create a jailed shell for a user Don($UID '500') using my own method(I don't want to use any ready-made "jailkit"). The user don should get a home directory /jail/don instead of /home/don when he login via SSH (So that he will not able to see any other files/directories on the system)
This is what I have done.
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It works without any issue ....Home directory changes to /jail/don when I ssh to the system as user don. ie: #ssh don@192.168.0.66
Then I added a chroot command to this code.
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Unfortunately , now I am getting an error message saying that "chroot: cannot change root directory to /jail: Operation not permitted" .. I am not sure how to rectify this error... Is my approach correct to get a jailed shell using /etc/profile file ?
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Code:
#!/bin/bash
echo
echo
echo "Automate Backups"
echo -n "Would you like to backup? Y or N:"
read answer1
if [$answer1 = "y"]
then
if [$USER = "root"]
then
echo
tar -cPvzf "$USER"_backup.tar.gz.`date +%F` /"$USER"/*
cp "$USER"_backup.tar.gz.`date +%F` /backups/"$USER"_backup.tar.gz.`date +%F`
echo "Successful Backup"
fi
echo
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cp "root"_backup.tar.gz.`date +%F` /backups/"$root"_backup.tar.gz.`date +%F`
echo "Successful Backup"
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