Told to us by Wesley W. Owen ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
on Sun, Apr 05, 1998 at 05:21:55PM -0400
> What file do I need to edit so when some FTP's to my system they get a
> welcome message other than...
>
> 220 my.server FTP server (Version wu-2.4.2-academ[BETA-15](1) Sat Nov 1
> 03:08:32 EST 1997)
You can add a banner message that will add text to the before the prompt
you are seeing above, but I don't think you can turn off that one
line from printing. The problem with a banner before is that it
can screw up some ftp clients that get confused by all the extra text.
You would add:
banner /etc/ftpbanner.msg
to your /etc/ftpaccess file. The path used is according to your systems
root account, NOT the ftp root account.
> And, I was wondering if it is possible to make it so when a user logs in,
> they see their home directory as the system root. Ex.
>
> /home/wes would look like / when I log in via ftp. Is this possible?
To do that they need to be chroot. The only way I know of doing that
is to put the user in a guestgroup and set them up in a ftp tree (I call
it rftp to distigush it from our normal ftp anon area).
Then when they log in, they are in ./username. If properly setup, they can
go up one directory but not be able to do anything there.
Look at man ftpaccess for more information.
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