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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
> 
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