Re: FTP Default Directory

[Matt Sauve-Frankel <baud_(_at_)_philosophiebleue_(_dot_)_com>]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 09:39:09PM -0400, Michael Cornwell wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am setting up a FTP server using OBSD 2.9.  I don't want anonymous FTP
> access, but I do want several of the users to be jailed into a common
> (/home/xyz) directory.  Does anyone have any suggestion to set this up?  I
> have checked the ftpd man pages and the FAQ's.

You can achieve this by creating a special login class for your FTP users
the ftp-dir: variable allows you to set a common ftp root for a class of users.
this will allow you to let your users keep their home directories.

you can assign a class to your users by entering their class name in
the fifth field of the passwd file with vipw.

read ftpd(8), login.conf(5) and passwd(5)

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