Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 19:04:39 -0400 From: Walter Betancourt <walt@betan.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: restricting ftp access Message-ID: <4.2.2.20010507190353.00b77450@pop3.palace.net> In-Reply-To: <15095.9137.554752.798356@guru.mired.org> References: <1692265@toto.iv>
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as I was just trying to do this without success, I'll hold my breath and wait to see any reply. At 05:37 PM 5/7/01 -0500, you wrote: >Nathan Vidican <webmaster@wmptl.com> types: > > man chmod, man chown > > > > You can change the permissions structure so as not to allow a user to > > exit a directory. For example: user is logged into /home/users/someuser, > > they can cd to /home/users, but not down to /home; and therefore not to > > anything below /home (eg: /etc). > >Have you actually done this, and made it work? If so, I'd be >interested to know what permissions you used - and on which >directories - as my experience is that this can't be done. A process >has to be able to read / and /home in order to get to /home/users, >which means they can get to anything in / and /home. > > <mike >-- >Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ >Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Walt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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