On Thu, 11 May 2000, Glen Lee Edwards wrote:
> How do I create a restricted ftp user account?
>
> This is for a webhosting server. Basically this client wants to have
> several users who can access different parts of
> /home/httpd/html/theirdomain without having access to the entire domain.
> I can accomplish this by setting them up as full users, but since their
> only reason for accessing the server is for ftp I'd prefer to set them up
> as restricted users.
>
> RH 6.1
>
Can you simply set their shells to /bin/false, and their home directory to
whatever directory they need access to? Or perhaps even better to leave
their directory here it is, and then make a link to the directory where
they are supposed to leave the files? Maybe someone more experienced can
explain to both of us if this approach would be OK or not.
In any case, the following document from the wu-ftpd site explains it all:
http://www.landfield.com/wu-ftpd/guest-howto.html
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