I recently have started setting up a dedicated server for very small purposes (game server). One being allowing users to login and upload/download files. I downloaded pro ftp and installed it on the system, and its running fine. I am also using webmin/xinetd as well. I edited the config file for proftp, and set it to a group of users, and I tested it and users from that group were able to login. My only problem is these users have unlimited access on the server. I've searched for a while and can't seem to find a specific tutorial on how to set up folder permissions for specific users. Basically, I just want to set up a permission in which a user (test), can only access /home/test.


I hope this isn't too complicated.. thanks in advanced.

I think the best method is to setup no-shell accounts that do a chroot. This will not only do what yo ask but prevent a user from logging in thru telnet or ssh. No changes required to proftp

http://www.tldp.org/LDP/solrhe/Secur...p29sec295.html

This does it for me.

<Limit LOGIN>
DenyUser !whatever
</Limit>
</Global>
# Normally, we want files to be overwriteable.
<Directory /home/*>
AllowOverWrite on
</Directory>

So according to jstu I could do something like this in the config file?

<Limit LOGIN>
DenyUser !test
</Limit>
</Global>
# Normally, we want files to be overwriteable.
<Directory /home/*>
AllowOverWrite on
</Directory>

and this would limit the user to only access to his or her directory located within the home directory itself?

What te_conway said looks like the best way to do it in my opinion
I am sorry i forgot a line in my last post.
If your user home directories permissions are set to 700 because it will limit them to /home.

DefaultRoot /home

<Limit LOGIN>
DenyUser !whatever
</Limit>

# Normally, we want files to be overwriteable.
<Directory /home/*>
AllowOverWrite on
</Directory>

You can also do DenyGroup iinstead of user.