Permissions...

[Adam McDougall]

If his account is going to be ftp only you can set his account's shell to
something like /sbin/nologin(or /usr/bin/passwd so they can change their
own pass), put it in /etc/shells so ftpd allows login, and man ftpd and
search for chroot for chroot instructions for the FreeBSD ftpd.  Or, you
have your wide choice of alternative ftpd daemons with different
configuration methods in /usr/ports/ftp.  If you want to stick with the
system ftpd and cant get it chrooted by the manpage's instructions, I can
assist further.

--
Adam McDougall
DECS Student
PC-Labs/Hardware/User Support


On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Mike Szumlinski wrote:

> I want to set up an account on my machine (FreeBSD 4.3) where the user can
> only read/write its own login directory and none of the rest of the
> filesystem. I donšt want the user to be able to browse the system at all. Is
> there a way with a standard install to have either a FTP only user or a way
> to disable the ability to browse the rest of the system easily?
>
> -Mike
>
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