problem in wu-ftp

lomaree · 07-08-2003, 01:22 PM

Hi

wanted to ask , if it's possbile to make the user go into a particular directory instead of going into the "home/username" directory when he connects to the ftp server..

thanks in advance

jcb_dreamvsat · 07-09-2003, 06:52 AM

yes, just change the directory where the user enter. you can do that using the user manager. I used in RH7.3

newbie like you....

lomaree · 07-09-2003, 12:35 PM

thanks you but how would i do it on the command line..

cropcircle · 07-09-2003, 05:32 PM

lomaree, what Linux distribution are you using?

Generally, you must edit the "/etc/passwd" file, for example :

user:x:501:501:Guest Account:/ftp/./incoming:/sbin/nologin

Here the user 'user" cannot go out of the /ftp directory and will enter /ftp/incoming by default.
The user 'user' also can't login, because his shell is "/sbin/nologin".

lomaree · 07-10-2003, 06:00 AM

i am using sun solaris white rabbit 5.0 and redhat 8

lomaree · 07-10-2003, 06:23 AM

i did that, but what i wanted to do is. how to make a user restricte from not letting him go back or take one step back from the default directory

i hope you got my point what i want to do

cropcircle · 07-10-2003, 12:21 PM

Maybe the 'Guest HOWTO' for Wu-ftpd is useful for you :

http://www.wu-ftpd.org/HOWTO/guest.HOWTO

It has various examples of 'chrooted' environments.

jcb_dreamvsat · 07-12-2003, 01:12 AM

if you mean that when a user goes ftp to your machine, it is restricted in its own created dir. you can do this by the command line.

#useradd <user> -g ftp

the default dir for this will go to /home/<user>