i got vsftpd running on my rh7 box and it works fine. I can log in as my user name and have access to most of the file system or as anonymous and have access to one folder (/var/ftp/pub) (i don't know how it did this though), i would like to make a login name that only has access to something like /shares/music or/shares/movies or /shares/crapyouwillneverneedinlife something like that. So i was wondering how i would do that.

Do i make a new user account in linux? Once i do, how do i only allow that user account to access its own little section of the file system?

thanks in advance

Setup and use chroot...

and this will do what? i am still very new to useing linux

You need setup virtual user
Try read:
ftp://vsftpd.beasts.org/users/cevans.../VIRTUAL_USERS