[CentOS] How to limit ftp users to just view their directory

Fri Mar 25 19:13:37 UTC 2011
Hakan Koseoglu <hakan at koseoglu.org>

On 25 March 2011 19:09, Todd Cary <todd at aristesoftware.com> wrote:
> I am in the process of bring up Centos 5.5.  My ftp server is
> vsftp.  When I add a user (e.g. brian), the "brian" directory is
> owned by "brian" and is in the "brian" group with 700
> permissions.  However, using a FTP client, the user "brian" can
> view all of the directories.  I do not see any directive in
> vsftpd.conf to limit this.  What have I missed?
You missed the chroot options.
chroot_local_user should be set to yes. If you want only certain users
to be chrooted, then use chroot_list_enable and add the users to the
list file. What this file does changes depending on the value of the
chroot_local_user so please read the manual for the exact explanation.
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