Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 01:14:20 +0800 (SGT) From: chas <panda@peace.com.my> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Sorry - read the manual for the 4th time and finally got it. Re: does chroot require any extra config ? Message-ID: <3.0.32.19980210013645.00947100@peace.com.my>
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Sorry. Sod's law - spent all day trying to sort it out and then as soon as I post, I notice I haven't got the guestgroup in ftpaccess. Apologies Chas >Setting up WU_FTP and learning why so many questions were >posted concerning it in the past. Seems to be working fine >except my security is non-existent. > >I've set chroot in /etc/passwd as follows : >fred:*:1001:100:fred:/var/websites/./fredsite:/etc/ftp-only > >This works fine. When fred ftps in, he is initially in >/var/websites/fredsite >If I understand this correctly, chroot means that he >sees /var/websites as / >So, he shouldn't be able to go anywhere else but subdirectories >of /var/websites. > >However, he can "cd .." from /var/websites ; "pwd" shows that >he is in "/var/websites" and he can also "cd /etc" directly. > >What else needs to be set to get chroot to run properly ? > >Thank you, > >chas > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message
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