FTP: User Restriction

'man chmod'

Then for each directory: chmod 600, or chmod 640, or etc. as required.

if he does a cd / he will be redirected to the root directory how can i permit him this. Using Windows NT 4.0, I have setup 10 ftp sites where each user cannot access each others directory even if he issues a cd command and if cd / was issued he will be redirected to a virutal root directory. I hope this is possible with Linux because I don't want to go back to Windows because it always gives me pain.

By seeting up a simple text file: /etc/ftpusers - a list of accounts that are DISALLOWED the ftp access. There are some more restrictions that you might want to set in place - check the /usr/doc/HOWTO (in RH)
In order to not allow the users to movearound, please read the manual pages for the ftpd. It's a good ideea to allow only anonymous access which can restrict the users to a single directory (to the anonymous user's directory - ftp account). In the manual page you will find some very sanerecommendations.

I assume you have RedHat and using wu-ftp.

You need to install anon-ftp rpm as well. It helps you and does lots of work^^.
You can tell where you want to insatll.
For my seting is I installed under /home/ftp.
Then all my clients are accessingto under /home/ftp/ They can not go top of home/ftp. There are some setting on configurations in /etc/ftpaccess and you need to copy /etc/passwd to /home/ftp/etc/ (/home/ftp/etc folder will be created by anon ftp).

You will figure it out once you find a right(?) doc but please read some docs before contect me ^^ . You need a help to do this, let me know. my email add. is sunnyj@meridian-corp.com

Good luck,

check the man page of ftpaccess and make the necessary changes to ftpaccess..especially check the restricted uid and gid part of it and creating a group with all the users so that you can restrict them based on their home directory...check man ftpaccess!!!
all the best
mm

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