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Date:      Mon, 15 Dec 1997 11:12:37 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Iliya V. Serov" <serov@telecom.lek.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What about "@groupname" notation in ftpchroot file?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971215111045.292U-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.971211133429.5790A-100000@telecom.lek.ru>

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On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Iliya V. Serov wrote:

> 	Hello dear sirs!
>    Here you are some questions. I've tried to setup a user, which
> is planned to work with our server via ftp only. So, I've done everything, 
> that man pages on ftpd told me to do in such a case. In fakt everything
> seems to work, somehow, but: when I place the groupname of the user in
> ftpchroot file, prefixed by "@", the users root directory remain unchanged
> and he can list the whole directory tree on my file system. And if,
> however, I plase the username itself in ftpchroot file, everything works
> exelently. May be I am wrong somewhere?

What is ftpchroot?  I've never seen that.   Usually people use wu-ftpd
andset this up by implanting a ./ in the directory path.

1.  You must run wu-ftpd.
2.  You must run wu-ftpd with the -a option.
3.  The delimiter is /./ not @.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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