[GLLUG] FTP Server

Marshal Newrock marshal at simons-rock.edu
Wed Apr 20 18:33:04 EDT 2005


On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, impact wrote:

> Yeah, just decided to try pure-ftpd, heard good things about
> speed/reliability.
> Question for you though.  I found the flag to toggle chrooting users
> into their home directories (obviously a good idea), but is there a way
> to exempt users from that? (my main user)

Looks like the -a <gid> option is what you want.  Chroot everyone except 
users in this gid.

But wouldn't your main user be using ssh/sftp anyway?

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