FTP Server Config Issue

blainehilton · 06-28-2005, 10:12 PM

I have just installed the vsftpd server that comes with Fedora Core. It is working. However what I would like to do is limit it so that a user can log in and access only their directory. For instance I have user "test" and they should have access to /home/test/, but not to /home/, and /, even just directory listings.

I have looked through the man page for the vsftpd.conf file and do not see any option that will help.

Is this setup possible?

Thanks in advance

d3funct · 06-28-2005, 11:09 PM

Two access files are used by vsftpd. Individual users can be denied access by placing their username in /etc/vsftpd.ftpusers. A second file, /etc/vsftpd.user_list, is only examined if userlist_enable=YES is set in /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf. It can be used either to list users which will be allowed access or users which will be denied access, depending on whether the option userlist_deny=NO is set(default is YES). In order to gain access to the ftp daemon, a users must satisfy the requirements of both access files.

Look at tcp_wrappers for the issue of locking down ftp users to particular directories.

blainehilton · 06-29-2005, 07:08 AM

Thanks for your reply. The tcp_wrappers did not work, however when I did a search for it I found the web site http://www.vsftpdrocks.org/faq/ and the first thing there was the chroot_local_user setting which was what I was looking for.

jhumeston · 07-05-2005, 07:13 PM

you can also modify the /etc/passwd file and put a /./ to indicate the root of their account, for example:

test:x:500:100::/home/./test:/bin/bash