Prem, Look for 'restricted shell'. It will (among other things) lock the user in its homedir. Googling for AIX "restricted shell" gave me about 20K hits. Good luck! Regards, Carel-Jan === If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. (Derek Bok) === > Hi all , > in AIX5.2L : > > can i disable a command for one particular OS user alone ? > > i.e., say TOM (only) should not able to use the > command 'cd' (only). > > i want him to stay in his home directory without moving > to other directories. can someone help me ! > > Regards, > Prem. > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l