[CentOS] Restricting ftp users to their directory

[Ajay Sharma]

I'm not sure why it's not there.  I'm running Centos 4.1 and 
vsftpd-2.0.1-5.  When I do a 'man vsftpd.conf', all the 'chroot' options 
are there.

--Ajay

Todd Cary wrote:
> Thank you...that is what I was looking for.  However, I have a question: 
> the man page does not give any information and when I go to vsfptd.conf, 
> "chroot_local_user" is not listed as an option.  Have I missed 
> something"  Do I need another cup of cofee?
> 
> I went to another server of mine and I did find that I had added 
> "chroot_local_user=YES".
> 
> Todd
> 
> Ajay Sharma wrote:
> 
>> Todd Cary wrote:
>>
>>> The user can get to /home and see the other dirs...is there a way to 
>>> make it so the user cannot view the other dirs?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Check out the vsftpd.conf man page and search for 'chroot'.  I have it 
>> enabled and lock every into their home directory.  Then I also enable 
>> the exclude list so that when I ftp in I can go anywhere.
>>
>> Here's the excerpt from my config:
>>
>> # You may specify an explicit list of local users to chroot() to their
>> # home directory. If chroot_local_user is YES, then this list becomes
>> # a list of users to NOT chroot().
>>
>> # chroot everyone
>> chroot_local_user=YES
>> # enable the excempt list
>> chroot_list_enable=YES
>> # and here's the list
>> chroot_list_file=/etc/vsftpd.chroot_list
>>
>>
>>
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