About SSH Access to an account

[Dr.Goebbels]

Hello,

I have a security Question,
If i will access to my friend's account to SSH , can he access to root and /home server and all settings?

Thanks

 

[nobaloney]

That would depend on what kind of ssh acces you'd give him.

Generally he will NOT have access to directories owned by root, nor to the actual content of files owned by root, nor to commands which may only be performed by root.

Generally he'll not be able to access the /home directory except for his own username inside the root directory.

In addition to full access to all files owned by him in his own /home/ directory, he will be able to enter all directories open to all users (d???xxx) be able to read all files readable by all users (-???x??), write to all files writable by all users (-????x?) and to execute all programs executable by all users: (-?????x) He'll also be able to create directories in all subdirectories which allow it (d????xx).

There's a good Wikipedia article here.

Jeff