From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 15 11:14:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA27899 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 11:14:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts8-line16.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA27838 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 11:13:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA00465; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 11:12:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 11:12:37 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Iliya V. Serov" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What about "@groupname" notation in ftpchroot file? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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