From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 30 10:02:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA13897 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 10:02:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.213.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA13767 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 10:01:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom by misery.sdf.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #3) id 0yJiUN-0001Mo-00; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 09:36:51 -0800 Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 09:36:50 -0800 (PST) From: Tom To: Rod Ebrahimi , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: security In-Reply-To: <351FA9C6.4C7D07B2@directhost.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Rod Ebrahimi wrote: > How is it possible to deny FTP users the priviledge to move or even see > other users directories? IE... user: foobar, has the ftp home directory > /home/foobar/ and accidently moves up a directory into the /home > directpry although he/she may noot be able to cause any distruction how > can I remedy this? > > Thank you... This does not belong on hackers. Anything that is in the manual does not belong on hackers. Anyhow, see manpage on ftpd in regards to chroot support. There are a couple of ways of doing it. I do it via a login class. You probably want to re-build ftpd with internal ls support to facilate chroot operation. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message