On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>wrote: > On 11/13/2009 07:16 PM, Victor Subervi wrote: > > Hi; > > I've learned how to add a user and change the root dir of vsftpd (which > > of course is undocumented). Now I need to learn how to make it so that a > > given user can only access his/her folder (within the root dir). Please > > not sure what docs you are looking at - but all these things are quite > clearly documented in the vsftpd docs and config files. Start by looking > there. > Well, you all pointed me to some documentation that was hardly worthy of the name. In fact, I'd dare say that "vsftp" stands for "Very SansDocs FTP". I googled and discovered a script for creating and adding users to vsftpd, and how to change the doc root--stuff that should be right up front in any documentation for an ftp server worth the name--but was unsuccessful in finding how to point certain users to certain folders within the doc root. > > It almost seems as if you are relying on this list to be your sysadmin > and your sp0onfeeder. > I apologize. It's been several years since I ran a server and I just need to get this server up and running. I'm unfamiliar with the OS, and each OS is different. I'll study the docs after I get up on my feet. And yesterday was an emergency because of my own stupidity. Everyone makes stupid mistakes, even you guys, and everyone has emergencies, so I hope you'll be a little understanding. > > eg. Start by indicating what docs you have looked and what is it that > you didnt find. > Again, I googled this. man vsftpd has virtually nothing. Googling "vsftpd docs" gives about as much. Also tried man vsftpd.conf which was much more useful but still didn't provide the information I need, which it seems to me is fundamental! Perhaps I've missed something, and if I have, I apologize in advance. > > Also, be considerate and dont top post. if you dont know what that means > - go look it up > I haven't been doing that for quite some time now, except when I'm thanking you all for help, in which case I believe it's easier for all concerned. Do you disagree? TIA, V -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20091113/a2269029/attachment-0005.html>