Re: Limiting user access in ftp, ssh, samba, etc... 'passwords'
The proftpd docs say that the daemon does a chroot operation after login
to restrict the user to a particular directory. The web site is at
www.proftpd.net. I am not sure how this compares to running a program
under the chroot command.
Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Pollywog wrote:
> Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 20:20:15 -0000 (UTC)
> From: Pollywog <pollywog@shadypond.com>
> To: debian-user list <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: Re: Limiting user access in ftp, ssh, samba, etc... 'passwords'
>
> On 26-Mar-2000 19:16:30 Ernest Johanson wrote:
> > You can tell proftpd to allow logins without a valid shell. It can also
> > set a default root directory for users so they can't see anything above
> > that point.
>
> Is this what is called "chroot"?
>
> --
> Andrew
>
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