Question regarding VSFTPD & Virtual Users

HalfShotz · 02-02-2017, 12:54 AM

Hello everyone!

I joined this community to ask this particular question. I've found answers for quite a few questions I've had here and figured it would be the best place to start.

So essentially what I have set up is VSFTPD with virtual users and everything there is set up properly and have tested signing in with a virtual user and it does exactly what I wanted it to do at the start. Now, what I'm looking to do is something I'm not sure is possible with VSFTPD or if it's one of it's limitations.

What I would like, is to be able to have multiple users with varying levels of folder access, some with the same directory as their root, others as a different directory.

To give an example, we have User1. User1 I would like to have /home/mcma/MCMA as their root directory. Then we have User 2. I would like his root directory to be /home/mcma/MCMA/PO2. User3 would have the same directory as User1 and User4 would have /home/mcma/MCMA/Infinity/config.

Is this something that's configurable in some way, or is that a limitation of the program? Most of the tutorials/threads I have read either here, or on other sites, only give examples on how to configure each user with their own directory, or 1 common directory shared between all users. I have yet to be able to find something in regards to multiple different directories for multiple users, some sharing the same directory and some with different directories.

Any help or suggestions to point me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated!

-HalfShotz

TheMadIndian · 02-17-2017, 08:28 AM

I believe you need to set the user config directory

you can try in your vsftpd.conf file adding this line and creating the directory if it doesn't exist

Code:

user_config_dir=/etc/vsftpd/vsftpd-virtual-user/

then use vi or something similar to create the virtual user file vsftpd_user in your config directory and add your users to the file and save it

then in the same directory create another file with each name in your user config file and specify your options like home directory or commands allowed and appropriate masks and if you want readonly set write_enable to no and save each file and you're done

Code:

local_root=/wherever/you/want/thehomedir/path
cmds_allowed=USER,PASS,SYST,FEAT,OPTS,PWD,TYPE,PASV,LIST,STOR,CWD,MKD,SIZE,MDTM,CDUP,RETR,RNFR,RNTO
local_umask=022  
write_enable=YES

also make sure this line is NOT in your vsftpd.conf file local_root=/your/dir/path otherwise the above wont work