From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 1 7: 8: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from skippyii.compar.com (mail.compar.com [216.208.38.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8FD437B423 for ; Tue, 1 May 2001 07:07:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from hermes (362.POOLDEF.TOR3.enoreo.on.ca [216.26.98.236]) by skippyii.compar.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id f41ECr013654; Tue, 1 May 2001 10:12:54 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <000d01c0d247$59926050$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "jason" , References: <012b01c0d247$4181a3e0$89941bd8@speakeasy.net> Subject: Re: Securing /etc against normal FTP users Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 10:02:19 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I am currently setting up a private FTP site on a FreeBSD 4.2-Current using > wu-ftpd. I noted that in BSD ftp access is tied directly to shell access. > What I am trying to do is allow users to login using private logins but not > have access to system areas or telnet access. Here is what I did > accomplish: Rather than all that, just add the user's name to /etc/ftpchroot. Users listed there will only be allowed to access files and directories contained within their home directory. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message