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Please follow the below steps to disable a specific command(s) for a certain user. # su - hari $ which rm (Here rm command as an example) $ mkdir ~/bin $ ln -s /bin/* ~/bin/ (/bin is the PATH for rm) $ rm -rf ~/bin/rm Take the output of $PATH for this user $ echo $PATH > MyPATH.txt Edit this file and replace /bin with ~/bin Login as root $ su - # cat /home/hari/MyPATH.txt >> /home/hari/.bashrc Change the permission of /home/hari/.bashrc # chmod 444 /home/hari/.bashrc # chattr +i /home/hari/.bashrc That's all. But the user can reset the PATH variable anytime to overcome this. Please comment with alternatives for this.