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From: David Langford <langfod@dihelix.com>
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Subject: Hiding user directories without breaking ftp?
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I am trying to get a system so that users can't "ls" other peoples
home directories.

The current problem is that this really breaks ftpd.

It doesn't affect uploading to the directory, but when a user moves to a
 subdirectory and then tries to back out, it goes all the way to the 
server root directory.


I set the dirs up like:


 drwxr-x--x   33 root  nolist	/u1
 drwxr-x--x   33 root  nolist	/u1/u
 drwx--x--x    3 user  user     /u1/u/user

PWD works like this.

 -r-xr-sr-x  1 bin  nolist /bin/pwd

Since ftpd setuid's the the incoming user then the getcwd() command doesnt
work.

I would like to figure out a way for getpwd() to work but break "ls".


Thanks,

-David Langford
 sysadmin@maui.net