Re: Securing FTP

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From: Nick Andrew
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 1998 00:00

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In <3525d8fb.26924992@news.ihug.co.nz> dlim@ihug.co.nz (Daryl Lim) writes:

>What I would like to know is how can I stop webpage owners from
>browsing outside there home directory eg. /web/html/~page/ . Currently
>if they were to FTP in they could browse outside there home directory
>to other directories eg. /usr/??? . This may seem very paranoid but I
>just want them to be able to FTP to their home directory to change
>their pages *only* . And not really snoop around 

Solution: get a copy of troll-ftpd and modify it to chroot to the user's
home directory.

[Hmm, seems like a good idea. I think I'll go do that...]

Nick.
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From: nick@zeta.org.au (Nick Andrew)
Subject: Re: Securing FTP
Date: 1998/04/05
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