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Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 16:39:09 +0100
From: Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>
To: Susie Ward <sward@voltage.net>
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Hiding user directories without breaking ftp?
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Or use the stock ftpd with the chroot option and INTERNAL_LS compiled in.
(see man ftpd).

Joe

On Fri, Sep 12, 1997 at 10:42:10PM -0500, Susie Ward wrote:
> Why not use wu-ftpd with the guest group, this will chroot the users into
> their own home directories and they can't back out past that. I'm using
> this with great success and I only hafta put /bin/ls in each users
> directory.
> 
> On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, David Langford wrote:
> > 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
> > 
> > 
> > 

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