*BSD News Article 73934


Return to BSD News archive

Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!eurocontrol.fr!ramses.eurocontrol.fr!not-for-mail
From: rbt@eurocontrol.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FTP User
Date: 11 Jul 1996 12:07:39 GMT
Organization: Eurocontrol EEC, Bretigny, France
Lines: 13
Message-ID: <4s2qqb$o4r@ramses.eurocontrol.fr>
References: <4s2jnu$o6e@zeus.crosslink.net>
NNTP-Posting-Host: mozart.eurocontrol.fr

 [courtesy cc of this posting sent to cited author via email]

In article <4s2jnu$o6e@zeus.crosslink.net>,
Marc Overman <moverman@crosslink.net> wrote:
> Is there any way to create an FTP user that is restricted to a single
> directory?

Use the "guestgroup" feature of wu-ftpd 2.4. You put people in a special group
and when they log with ftp, they will be in a chroot()-ed directory. You'll
have to populate their bin/ directory and put at least ls here.
-- 
Ollivier ROBERT   -=- Eurocontrol EEC/TIS -=-   Ollivier.Robert@eurocontrol.fr
Usenet Canal Historique