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Re: FTP access for users ?
There is a very simple solution to this problem
and i bet you can find it one the web (not sure thought;p)
look for "wu-ftpd FAQ", "setting up anonymous ftp" or "securing anonymous
ftp".
Isn't the internet a blast ?
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, root wrote:
.|Hi all .
.|This will probably merit another security related attack on me, but here's
.|my question anyway -
.|I have anonymous FTP access to my machine, to /home/ftp . when loged on ,
.|users cannot see all the directory tree, but only what's beneath
.|/home/ftp, as if /home/ftp is the root directory.
.|I want to give FTP access to my users, so they can log into their home
.|directories (which are at /var/users/ ) and put some files there. but when
.|I do that, users get loged into their home directory, but they can see the
.|entire root structure and can navigate through it and look at "open to
.|all" files. they can't change anything, but they can read most of the
.|files of other users (since the default premmision there is 655 to allow
.|the home directory to function as personal web space).
.|how can I confine users to their own directory structure in the same way
.|as an anonymous FTP user ?
.|
.|Oded
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Guy Cohen <guy@spice.org.il>