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Re: How to restrict users from serfing around my server via FTP.




>
> I think I read somewhere that certain FTP servers recognize a convention
> when you have the homedir in the password file changed from /home/luser
> to /home/luser/./ it becomes chrooted when they log in.
>

Yes, it will try to chroot but fail if the directory structure is wrong.
This is a necessary step, but not sufficient ;-)

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