Re: FTP Permissions

["Richard H. Fifarek" <rfifarek@som.siu.edu>]

	I have found that ProFTPd is much easier in this respect.  The
documentation was straight forward as well.

On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Steven Pritchard wrote:

> 
> David A. Glass said:
> > I have a server running Mandrake 5.3...
> > 
> > How do I make a users home dir the / when they log in from ftp??
> > 
> > I don't want them to be able to roam around my server when they log in....
> 
> It's a pain from wu-ftpd.  It can be done, but it is a *royal* pain.
> You have to add a line like this to /etc/ftpaccess:
> 
>     guestgroup www
> 
> Then create a group "www" (you can call it anything, just make sure it
> matches the guestgroup line in ftpaccess).  Then you have to make the
> user's home directory (in /etc/passwd) something with a . in it.  For
> example, if you make the user's home directory /home/user/./, then
> when they login, they'll be chroot'd to /home/user.  If you set it to
> /home/user/./public_html/, then they'll still be chroot'd to
> /home/user, but they'll start in the public_html directory under that.
> 
> Of course, the thing that sucks is that you pretty much have to have
> the same permissions for anonymous ftp users as for the restricted
> users.  If anonymous ftp users can't delete files, then you probably
> won't be able to make it so that restricted users can.  (The wu_ftpd
> documentation would tend to indicate otherwise, but I've never been
> able to make it work.)
> 
> This is exactly why I don't run wu_ftpd on our ftp server...
> 
> Steve
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