From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 21 6:50: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wormhole.bluestar.net (wormhole.bluestar.net [208.53.1.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFFAF37B423 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 06:49:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from planetwe.com (admin.planetwe.com [64.182.69.146]) by wormhole.bluestar.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e8LDnpN18340; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 08:49:51 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <39CA1200.CCE84C0E@planetwe.com> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 08:49:52 -0500 From: Drew Sanford X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: chroot - security alternatives? References: <39C937E5.F67665C5@planetwe.com> <20000921002959.A367@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ok. Lets try this again. Simply: I'm ftping into a box, where the home directory on the box is an nfs mount. This is what happens: drew@leila(~)$ ftp ftp.otherserver.com Connected to ftp.otherserver.com. 220 ftp.otherserver.com FTP server (Version 6.00LS) ready. Name (ftp.otherserver.com:drew): username 331 Password required for username. Password: 550 Can't change root. ftp: Login failed. Remote system type is UNIX. Using binary mode to transfer files. ftp> The users name does appear in the /etc/ftpchroot file. The system is trying to chroot, but its obviously failing. I hope this makes things clearer. Thanks for the reply, I'm sorry I wasn't clear the first time. -- Drew Sanford Systems Administrator Planetwe.com Email: drew@planetwe.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message