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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_L=F6nneker?= <bjoern@loenneker.com>
To: Sami.Gounder@team.telstra.com
Subject: RE: Preventing FTP user accessing other directories 
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You wrote:
> We need to setup FTP for users to copy
files from our UNIX box. Is there a
> way to restrict each user to a
directory and sub-directories below it
> without removing OTHERS permission
everywhere else?
> Sami
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--
you can restrict users to their
home-directories by adding their
groupname to /etc/ftpchroot. If your
users are, for example, all part of the
"users" group, put "@users" into
/etc/ftpchroot.


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