topic Re: How to set the home folder for anonymous ftp in Operating System - Linux

How to set the home folder for anonymous ftp

skt_skt — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:19:37 GMT

RHEL AS 3 U9
vsFTPd 1.2.1

i want them to get set to /sec_nav_pr/NAV/pub.
where i can configure that

# ls -ld /sec_nav_pr/NAV/pub
dr-xrwxr-x 6 ftp nav 4096 Dec 20 2007 /sec_nav_pr/NAV/pub

Re: How to set the home folder for anonymous ftp

Ivan Ferreira — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:23:29 GMT

Change the home directory for the ftp user in the /etc/passwd file.

Re: How to set the home folder for anonymous ftp

Ivan Krastev — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:46:45 GMT

Set anon_root to your dir:
anon_root=/sec_nav_pr/NAV/pub

See more here - http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch15_:_Linux_FTP_Server_Setup

regards,
ivan

Re: How to set the home folder for anonymous ftp

Suraj K Sankari — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:33:07 GMT

Hi,

I think while creating you can set the home directory like normal user.

and you can set the folder permission so the Anonymous user not able to access other directories.

Suraj