vsftpd setup/configuration
 

hey all,
I was recently asked to setup a new server for the Quillayute Valley School District (see: http://www.forks.wednet.edu/ ). I've setup RH9, Samba and VSFtpD, and all is working perfectly save one thing. Samba is setup to share:

1) /public (used for public access read/write storage for students)

2) /home/* (private secured data storage by username for students)

VSFtpD is setup to share:

1) /home/*

but I would like to set it up so that:

1) they have read/write access to /public

and,

2) the rest of the system is not viewable/browsable

I haven't been able to find any information on advanced configuration of the FTP service... ie, man pages shed no light, no website that I found, no posts that cover this aspect of the service, etc...

I'm not even sure if this is possible, but any advice (including using a different FTP daemon if needed) would be welcome. Thanks!!

Tim

The term you're looking for is "chroot". Look at the vsftpd docs and search LQ for vsftp and chroot, we got this question covered quite a few times.