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Re: proftpd questions



On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Michelle Storm wrote:

> I'm interested in restricting what directories proftp will show to
> users. I know that on the /home/* I can just do a chmod o-rwx /home/*
> and that fixes that.. but I want proftpd limited to /home/
>
> currently I only want proftpd to be able to access /home/shared
> but I want it's base to be /home/
>
> what's the easiest way to do this? I've already limited it to only being
> able to access /home/shared in the /home/ dir... but people can still cd
> / and at least view the rest of the filesystem. I want to prevent any
> viewing except in /home/

Sounds like you need to look into chroots, if that's what proftpd calls
them too.




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