How can Give particular location to Access in FTP

deepak_message · 10-22-2007, 02:54 AM

Hello Frineds,

I am using VSFTP in office. I want to give access permission of particular folder not their home folder.by default can access home folder.
that is ...
ABC is user name, I want to set ftp access permission on /data folder only. not their home folder.
how it is possible in /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf.

Please let me know.

Thanks in Advance..

sneakyimp · 10-23-2007, 05:08 PM

I'm not 100% sure, but I believe that when you create a user using 'useradd some_user_name' that the created user by default has FTP access to the directory called /home/some_user_name. The issue therefore appears to be not a vsftpd configuration but rather an issue with the behavior or the 'useradd' command.

This user's home folder is automatically created by the useradd cmd and has user=some_user_name and group=some_user_name. To deny access to the some_user_name, you'd need to change the permissions on that folder. This might work:

Code:

chown root.root /home/some_user_name
chmod 600 /home/some_user_name

then if you want to give access to the folder /home/some_user_name/data you would need to give that user permissions to the folder:

Code:

chown some_user_name.some_user_name /home/some_user_name/data
chmod 600 /home/some_user_name

I could be wrong about vsftpd config....there may be *some* way to do it.