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I'm setting up vsftp on Ubuntu Natty Narwhal & have configured chroot to jail basic user accounts. However I'd like to create a 'power user' account that can browse the user folders in /home but not go any higher within the system.
What I've done so far is I've created a default user account with 'adduser' then added the account to 'chroot_list'. But I don't want it to be able to browse the entire system, just within /home. Is there a 'best practice' method?
Thanks,
You are suggesting lock down perms on each folder in the root dir [bin, boot, dev etc]? That sounds good! But how? [sorry I'm a complete 'noob' at this stage]
At the moment, an account is either jailed & can only see their own home folder, or 'free' & can access everything. I'd like to set up something in between.
I see there is the option to run 'Bastille' but it appears to be recommended for more advanced users.
where 'group1' could be any group in the root directory that I want to prevent 'others' [the 'o' part of the above code] from gaining access.
Tested in Filezilla & looking good.
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