Apache FTP permissions question

Seventh · 05-20-2004, 02:26 PM

I have a user loggin into my apache FTP, and I'm not sure how to set permissions for it.

Right now he FTP's to /home/username (this is good), but he can navigate up the tree to /home, /, /etc, and everything else.

I'd just like to restrict him so that he can't go any higher up than /home/hisusername, but obviously into any folders under that ( /home/hisusername/rtfm-seventh ).

Thanks much for any insight.

marghorp · 05-20-2004, 03:09 PM

What FTP are you using? in VSFTPD (that comes with redhat or fedora) you should edit /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf file wher it says chroot_list_file and make it point to a file of your choice (place it into /etc folder)

In that file you should write the usernames of users you want access limited to their home directory (one user per line).

HEre is my vsftpd.conf file expunge:

chrot_list_file=/etc/vsftpd.chroot_list

If you are using any other ftp client, just locate it's conf file and set it up like this or so.