FTP security !

chuck77 · 03-04-2002, 07:34 PM

I am using redhat 7.1 and setting up ftp login. How do i restrict user from browsing other directories...other than their home directory ?? i just want them to upload and download from their home directory only..

Thanks...

trickykid · 03-04-2002, 07:44 PM

make sure they don't belong to any groups other than their own home directory. might want to read up on read write and execute permissions in linux..

-trickykid

chuck77 · 03-04-2002, 08:30 PM

Hi. The user is able to : cd /home and browse the
whole home directory. I want to disable that...and
keep them solely on their /home/user directory.

nutshell · 03-05-2002, 12:00 AM

Can u make all sub directories only available to root or such?

DavidPhillips · 03-05-2002, 12:09 AM

Are you using chroot?

I think you want something like this

#!/bin/sh
[ "$1" = "-c" ] && a="$*"
sudo /usr/sbin/chroot /home/$USER /bin/su - $USER $a

see this link

http://tjw.org/chroot-login-HOWTO/

probably what you would do is for each real user, make a user that has a link to the same home directory of the real user and change their shell to the script above