Re: wu-ftpd security
I don't know if wu-ftpd is configurable to do otherwise, but on my
installation only anonymous users are chrooted (to /home/ftp, which has
bin, etc and lib dirs.)
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 09:48:54AM -0500, Steve Johnson wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm using wu-ftpd and set up /etc/wu-ftpd/ftpaccess to allow only one
> user(using the deny-uid and allow-uid directives). I also added a
> 'restricted-uid myuser' flag. Everything is worknig fine, but I'm
> confused. It's chrooting (or appears to) that user to it's home
> directory just as I would hope for, but there is no /home/myuser/bin,
> /home/myuser/etc or /home/myuser/lib dirs? Yet when I ftp in with ncftp
> from another machine, I am chrooted, and I'm able to `ls' and run other
> commands? How is that? Is it really chrooted, and/or secure?
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