From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 3 13:31:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from firehouse.net (spook.networkoperations.com [209.42.203.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ADD1637B533 for ; Wed, 3 May 2000 13:31:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abc@firehouse.net) Received: (qmail 12392 invoked by uid 1000); 3 May 2000 20:31:38 -0000 Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 16:31:38 -0400 From: Alan Clegg To: Terry Babbey Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FTP Daemon Question Message-ID: <20000503163138.H2285@ecto.greenpeas.org> References: <39108C3A.BD4491CF@lambton.on.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <39108C3A.BD4491CF@lambton.on.ca>; from terry@lambton.on.ca on Wed, May 03, 2000 at 04:29:46PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Out of the ether, Terry Babbey spewed forth the following bitstream: > Is it possible to run the ftp daemon with less than ROOT access? You mean chrooted? Read 'man ftpd' and look for "chroot". 5. If the user name appears in the file /etc/ftpchroot, or the user is a member of a group with a group entry in this file, i.e. one prefixed with `@', the session's root will be changed to the user's login directory by chroot(2) as for an ``anonymous'' or ``ftp'' account (see next item). This facil- ity may also be triggered by enabling the boolean "ftp-chroot" capability in login.conf(5). However, the user must still supply a password. This feature is intended as a compromise between a fully anonymous account and a fully privileged ac- count. The account should also be set up as for an anonymous account. AlanC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message