ProFTPD issue

Jose Celestino japc at co.sapo.pt
Sat Nov 17 02:50:22 UTC 2007


Words by wwli [Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 05:54:02PM -0800]:
> Hi all,
> 
> What I want to do is restrict user only has ftp access to their home
> directory. I have searched online a lot. And I set like this on
> proftpd.conf @ /etc/proftpd.conf
> :
> DefaultRoot  ~   onlyftpusers
> 
> I have a user  myuser 's primarygroup is onlyftpusers
> 
> 
> But  after myuser still can access directory other than its home
> directory. 

Yes but can he do cd .. and "go out" ?

>
> And I am using WinSCP ftp client in windows.
> 

And are you sure you're using ssh ?

Run proftpd with options -n -d 9 and look for chroot when the user logs
in.

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Jose Celestino
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