From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 3 4: 2:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hecate.webcom.com (hecate.webcom.com [209.1.28.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7FAA14F6A for ; Mon, 3 May 1999 04:02:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from graeme@echidna.com) Received: from kigal.webcom.com (kigal.webcom.com [209.1.28.57]) by hecate.webcom.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id FAA26459 for ; Mon, 3 May 1999 05:02:48 -0700 Received: from [204.143.69.47] by inanna.webcom.com (WebCom SMTP 1.2.1) with SMTP id 31623908; Mon May 03 03:59 PDT 1999 Message-Id: <372DAC7D.736D@echidna.com> Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 07:02:37 -0700 From: Graeme Tait Organization: Echidna X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: info@boatbooks.com Subject: Chroot'ed ftpd / Users with home directory not under /home Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I want to use the chroot'ed feature of ftpd to give a user control by ftp of a portion of a web tree, while restricting them from seeing/changing anything else on the server by ftp. I can do this by creating a new user with the home directory set to their root point in the web tree. I have disabled telnet access to the account. My question is, is this an acceptable procedure? Are there any consequences to creating users with home directory not under /home? I'm assuming I can omit all the dot files. -- Graeme Tait - Echidna To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message