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 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> >> >