Hi there again!

I'm trying to create an FTP server with FreeBSD to share files with friends and stuff. I've got anonymous ftp to work without a problem. However, that's not quite what I want, I want to create an user _with_ password. This is FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE and this is what I did...

1) First, I've added an user, let's say, tux.
2) I made sure that this user is created under the class FTP.
3) it has password

This user default's home directory is /home/tux. I can login into my FTP from inside and outside my network (forwarded port 21 on my router) without any problems. Here is the problem:

- Anybody connected to my FTP as tux can access the folders _outside_ /home/tux, even my root partition. Indeed they can't write anything outside /tux/incoming, but still, I dislike it a lot. With anonymous ftp, I did not have this problem. /home/ftp is the 'highest' somebody can get inside my directories in my anonymous FTP.

How do I change this behavior so that /home/tux is the only folder peoples can see? Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance

P.S: I'm not using any fancy FTP server as proftpd or anything, but the default ftpd shipped with FreeBSD.

P.S:2 I don't think this is a FreeBSD only behavior, but still, I decided to put it in here, since I'm using FreeBSD. Any Linux users are welcome with suggestions. Thanks

handbook 23.9.2 has this:

I don't know more about it than what's on the man page, but that might help, or at least give something to search off of.

Oh my, great post Genesee!. It's as they say: If you ever get a problem with an *nix box, ask a Slackware user . Worked like a charm!!! This is what I did:

1) created the file /etc/ftpchroot (I did not have that file)
touch /etc/ftpchroot

2) edit that file, so I could limit all tux user from the ftp wheel to his login folders only:
tux
@ftp


3) restarted the ftpd and have fun!

Thanks again mate!

Have a nice day

no problem - glad to hear that helped