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From: chas <panda@peace.com.my>
Subject: Sorry - read the manual for the 4th time and finally got it.
  Re: does chroot require any extra config ?
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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
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