Locking users to home directory...

CRCool75 · 08-18-2006, 08:21 PM

Hello,

I have found several topics on the web regarding how to lock a user to their home directory. However, none of the solutions seem to work. I am running Suse Enterprise Server 9 and not even sure which FTP program I am using. There is pure-ftpd, WU-FTP, vsftpd, etc. Are all of these different types of FTP? Anyway, is there any one simple way to lock a user to their home directory?

Thanks!

CRCool75 · 08-18-2006, 08:49 PM

Ok, I sort of understand what these are. They are just different FTP server programs? None of them are running on the Suse box, but I can still FTP in. What's up with this? Thanks.

CRCool75 · 08-19-2006, 01:17 AM

Anybody have an idea?

branden_burger · 08-19-2006, 06:03 AM

Well, do your homework first, dude!

Find out which ftp server's running on your box. On red hat (and I think on suse) I'd do at the terminal:

rpm -qa| grep ftp

and see what kind of ftp server I'm running.

I'd recommend unistalling it and installing vsftp. It's easy to use. What you want to be doing, is "chroot" your users to their home directories. This can easily be done in vsftp by adding the user to be chrooted to /etc/vsftpd.chroot_list and restarting the vsftp service.