Limit unix users file access

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Published on 2010-04-28T12:12:57Z Indexed on 2010/04/28 12:23 UTC
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Hello,

I just created a new user on my server, but I only want this user to have access to var/www/ and all the files/folders inside that.

They should be able to access no other files on the server except those.

How would I do this?

Thanks!

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