Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 18:27:28 +1000 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au> To: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net> Cc: Nguyen Phi Khanh <nguyenpk@kuci.org>, freebsd-ISP@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: limiting users from cd-ing to directories. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.971023182551.524Q-100000@panda.hilink.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.971022232618.26455E-100000@luke.cpl.net>
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On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Shawn Ramsey wrote: > > It's come to my attention that there's supposedly a method to > > limit users from cd-ing out of the home directory of their account. Say, > > if a user's home directory is /home/users/johndoe, then he can't cd to > > /home/users or /home or even to any other system directory but his own and > > the subdirectories within his home directory. If this is true, how is it > > done? Supposedly login.conf? > > Its done with wu-ftpd, and making the users home directory > /usr/home/users/./ and putting something like this in ftpaccess : > > guestgroup ftpusers > > then all users in ftpusers would be limited to their home > directory(provided they have a /./ at the end) Also done with FreeBSD's ftpd. Read the manpage. Put the user's name in /etc/ftpchroot. Or put the user in a class which includes the boolean 'ftpchroot' (see man login.conf(5)). you'll want to rebuild ftpd using -DBUILTIN_LS or whatever it is called. Danny /* Daniel O'Callaghan */ /* HiLink Internet <http://www.hilink.com.au/>; danny@hilink.com.au */ /* FreeBSD - works hard, plays hard... danny@freebsd.org */
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