Re: ftpd chroot

[Bryan Irvine <bryan.irvine@kingcountyjournal.com>]

I do this with one our websites.

I have a chrooted ftp only user whose home directory is set to
/var/www/htdocs/images

(the user is named images).

--Bryan

On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 22:12, Okan Demirmen wrote:
> So my question is related to the ftpd chroot implementation. The
> best way for me to ask is via an example.
> 
> the users homedir is "/home/test" with a symlink in it,
> "/home/test/www -> /var/www/users/test"
> 
> /etc/login.conf snip:
>         :ftp-chroot:\
>         :ftp-dir=~:
> 
> That will drop the user into their home directory from homedir in
> passwd. Now obviously when ftpd' in, chdir to "www" will _not_ work
> due to chroot (all good).
> 
> Now take the following values in /etc/login.conf
>         :ftp-chroot:\
>         :ftp-dir=~/www:
> 
> Again, ftpd will drop me into a chroot, but this time will honor
> the symlink, and it chroots in /home/test/www which is really
> /var/www/users/test.
> 
> My question is: is that intended?
> 
> If so, I wonder if taking ftp-dir to another level might be possible.
> For example :ftp-dir=/var/www/users/$LOGNAME:.
> 
> Opinions? Flames?
> 
> Thanks,
> Okan