From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 22 17: 5: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.airmail.net (mail.airmail.net [206.66.12.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 624EC14DBC for ; Sat, 22 May 1999 17:05:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michael.brune@airmail.net) Received: from airmail.net from [207.136.19.160] by mail.airmail.net (/\##/\ Smail3.1.30.16 #30.400) with esmtp for sender: id ; Sat, 22 May 99 19:05:03 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <37474444.F659355E@airmail.net> Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 18:56:52 -0500 From: Corey Brune X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.6 i86pc) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Allowing users access References: <4.1.19990522162302.00bb58d0@mail.sirius.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jason Scott wrote: > I would like to allow users access to FTP their files into their individual > accounts on my server, but I don't want to allow Telnet (or allow only > limited telnet) so that my server's files are not altered. If anyone has > any experience in this, or could point me in the right direction, I would > appreciate it EXTREMELY. I have read several books, including "the > complete freebsd" and more, and I haven't been able to find anything... > > Thank You, > Jason Scott > > Please reply via e-mail to: freepix@sirius.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message You could try ncftpd at www.ncftpd.com or if you use wu-ftpd, you can chroot the users in the passwd file. I think the syntax is something like: username:password:uid:gid:comment:/path/to/home/dir/./:shell This syntax may be a little off, btu the main thing is to get the ./ at the end of the home directory. Hope this helps, Corey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message