Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 10:29:09 -0800 (PST) From: Michael Haro <perl@netmug.org> To: chas <panda@peace.com.my> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: does chroot require any extra config ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980209102706.19716A-100000@netmug.org> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980210005744.00941860@peace.com.my>
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You need to add fred to the group you define in the guestgroup line in your wu-ftpd config. Example: in ftpaccess: guestgroup websites in group: websites:*:fred Michael On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, chas wrote: > 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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