Hi, I inherited a Fedora 10 FTP server, initially there was only one FTP user account with one password but things have changed and a request has been made to setup different FTP user accounts and limit access for each user to one directory.

I took the simple approach and assigned each "drwx" permissions and it basically works but in testing I notice two things:
1 - Each user can change directories up one level and see the other directory names. The good news is you get a 550 error unable to change directory to any but your own.
2 - More perplexing to me is each of the users can change to the root "/" directory and can change to some of the directories and even "get" some of the files.

Probably something fundamental I've overlooked or just not aware of. I'm not a Unix/Linux sysadmin I'm only asked to play one on occasions and I have a number of systems in my lab mostly Ubuntu 9.10.

Maybe there's a better way to setup an FTP server I'm not aware of. Thanks for any pointer.
Regards,
jw

Would be good to know which ftp server and version; guessing vsftp.
You could try
Also it usually tells you when you connect.
If it IS vsftpd, try these links https://security.appspot.com/vsftpd/vsftpd_conf.html http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/w...P_Server_Setup

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