OS: FreeBSD 10.2 amd64 (but works on other versions/archs too). User is set as: # pw user show whoo whoo:<passwd hash>/:1002:1002::0:0:User &:/home/whoo:/usr/local/bin/rbash # # pwd; ls -lad . .bash* /home/whoo drwx------ 3 whoo whoo 15 Feb 4 20:55 . -rw------- 1 whoo whoo 1677 Feb 4 23:54 .bash_history -rw-r--r-- 1 root whoo 35 Feb 4 20:56 .bash_profile # # grep PATH .bash_profile PATH="/home/whoo/bin" export PATH # # ls -la /home/whoo/bin/ total 130 drwxr-xr-x 2 root whoo 4 Feb 4 23:43 . drwx------ 3 whoo whoo 15 Feb 4 20:55 .. -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 21082 Feb 4 23:42 man -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 150216 Sep 4 16:07 more # man and more are copied from FreeBSD's /usr/bin. When logged as user `whoo': $ cd / -rbash: cd: restricted $ $ find -rbash: find: command not found $ $ ls -rbash: ls: command not found $ $ unset PATH -rbash: unset: PATH: cannot unset: readonly variable $ But with specially set MANPAGER: $ export MANPAGER="/usr/bin/less ; /bin/csh" $ $ man man /home/whoo/bin/man: head: not found eval: tbl: not found eval: groff: not found whoo@tbsd01:~ % whoo@tbsd01:~ % setenv PATH "/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin" whoo@tbsd01:~ % whoo@tbsd01:~ % cd / whoo@tbsd01:/ % ls -la | head -6 total 138 drwxr-xr-x 22 root wheel 28 Jan 15 14:26 . drwxr-xr-x 22 root wheel 28 Jan 15 14:26 .. -rw-r--r-- 2 root wheel 966 Nov 11 2014 .cshrc -rw-r--r-- 2 root wheel 254 Nov 11 2014 .profile -rw------- 1 root wheel 1024 Feb 24 2015 .rnd whoo@tbsd01:/ % whoo@tbsd01:/tmp % ls blob00 conftest79193 install.dMvSoF9f mc-root mergemaster.mtree.fDhpjfhQ screens whoo@tbsd01:/tmp %