making secure limitations for non-root users

[Gregory Nowak]

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Tom has already told you what the best approach would be. However, let
me try to specifically answer your questions.

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:39:40PM -0600, Tyler Littlefield wrote:
> I would, however like to limit them in disk space (I can figure that
one out),

Ok.

> in port usage (not sure how to do this one, would like to limit what
ports they can open),

The only thing I can think of for that is the obvious, a
firewall. However, that would apply to everyone on the system. There
is something called owner match support, when you're configuring the
firewall stuff in the kernel, however, I'm not sure if that does what
it actually suggests, or something else. Sorry, that's all I can tell
you there, maybe a firewall howto somewhere would tell you more.

> programs they can run,

The best way I can think of to do that, is to create a group on your
system, where all the binaries you want users to access are a part of
that group. Then, add the users you want to be able to access those
binaries to that group as well, and leave the rest binaries/users
out. On my debian system, there is a group called bin, but most of my
binaries are in root's group. I'm not sure if the bin group is
reserved for something else, or if it is there for what its name
suggests, and it's up to the system admin to use it as he/she wishes.

> and also what they can view on the system.

You need to be more specific. What do you want them to be able to
view, man pages, text files, contents of specific directories, what?

Greg


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