[SunHELP] Restricting the user on a FTP session

[Naresh Narang]

Swamy:

      The "root" of anonymous ftp user should be set to somthing like /ftp/anonymous/ where you have all your public, bin etc. dir so s/he can't do a ".." on "root".

NKN

> 
> 
> Swamy CNN at SATYAM
> 12/22/2000 01:33 PM
> 
> Hi all,
>      I'm trying to set up a ftp user with the minimum permission, so that he can
> login his home directory and get all his files only. Since the default
> permissions on his directory ".."(double dot) will be normally 755, he can do a
> "cd .." and go back upto "/" and read out all my file system. I tried changing
> the permissions on "..", which effects permissions on parent directory, and my
> parent directory has different combinations of file permissions set under it.
> So, how do i restrict this ftp user with out affecting my file system.
> 
> swamy.
> 
> 
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-- Naresh
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