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Re: FTP security problem

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From: babylon
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 00:00
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joel@bhampc.com wrote:

> HELP!
>
> My company hosts a few customer's websites on our NT server, and I
> want to provide my customers with the ability to log in and update
> their sites.  Unfortunately, Internet Information Server doesn't allow
> me to do "home directories" for users.  I know that Linux will, but I
> can't for the life of me find any information or instructions on how
> to achieve this...   if anybody knows how to restrict a specific
> username to a specific directory, please email me at joel@bhampc.com
>
> Thank you!!

if you add a user and give her/him a homedir and add this id to the
ftp-group your done.
real easy
f.i
user:x:530:530:user:/home/user:/bin/bash
if you put this in your /etc/passwd everything should be fine
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