Do you have /bin/ls? Otherwise your listings may be empty as it can't find ls...

Just a thought.

Jamie...

Yup, copied the whole /bin folder.

I just got rid of it and tried a few things...

the /./ on the end of the home dir doesn't seem to do anything at all.

In FTP, telling it to treat group ftponly as a guest makes it not show /home/test (but show it as if it's at root, eg seems to be chrooting to /home/test), but tha won't let me see any files other than those create this session.

According to that doc, the /./ sticks it in the home dir (wrong, I can go anywhere with just that!), and setting it as guest seems to give you an upload only (and no ls!) scenario!

I'm well confused!

I added the users to the group "ftponly", then I set ftp to treat that group as guests. I gave guests delete/rename etc. access, and changed their home dir to /home/username/./web and copied /bin and /lib into /home/username

Works fine!

Dan, I think its a permission problem...the directories your creating are surely present only i think for some reason you havent enabled the directory to show entries.

It can be done with chmod via an FTP client


Im not sure of the above but it may help...

BTW:
Are you using Webmin on a public IP connection ??? If you are, then I warn you that it is not very secure, cause I used it before and some one from Brazil hacked into port 10000 set for Webmin and created account and stuff...
Right now I won't even open up port 21 for telnet rather to have this huge window open for any one to hack in and do whatever.

I've got most things (including telnet) turned off for security, just what we need is enabled.

Ok, I spent all yesterday sorting that out, and it turns out, he wants the two users that I locked down, do have access to the *same* directory, which he must also have access to, and be web-accesible!

Can I just set their home dirs to /var/www/theirdomain/./web and copy bin and lib to theirdomain? Will it screw the website up having thei profiles in there (those .bash files etc.) ??

Also, is there any way I can disable Perl and PHP (not sure if any other languages might be enabled?!) for that folder (they don't need it, so if I disable it, they can't get crafty ideas about running Perl scripts!). And if I do it via .htaccess, they can edit the file, so could I put it in /var/www/theirdomain, and would it still work (since theirdomain is mapped to /var/www/theirdomain/web - will it look further up for .htacces files)?

Thanks,

Danny