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How to lock user to a specific directory?

Posted on September 16, 2015

Hi, I’m using Ubuntu 12. I want to know how to restrict an user to a specific directory? For example: I want to restrict ‘almc’ to /home/cs/dev/server1. How can I do that so that the user is not able to see other files?



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