ftp access (chroot'ing)

[Avarsang Shankar]

How can I restrict a user (not anonymous) to chroot to only a particular dir for ftping files in and out? What should be the contents on ftpaccess file ?

[Sanjay_6]

Hi,

Try this,

http://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000073094324

The doc id is KBRC00008355.

Also do man ftpaccess for more help.

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Chris Wong]

http://www.newfdawg.com/SHP-FTP-anon.htm

The 2nd part of this is a step-by-step on how to do restricted FTP.

- Chris

[Dani Seely]

Sanjay provided a GREAT link. I had to stumble through this the hard way when I was setting this up for remote access into my box and wish I would have known the information in this link was available when I had to set this up. Key factor for me was to ensure the ftp user was assigned the shell /usr/bin/false so that this would not allow telnet sessions or direct sessions, only ftp sessions. You will also have to include /usr/bin/false in the /etc/shells file.

The steps in the article that Sanjay included is pretty accurate based on what I did, but just remember to assin the false shell, otherwise the user can have telnet or direct access, too.

[Tapas Jha]

Hello,
1)Creat a user with shell /usr/bin/ftpshell
which will contain exit 0.
2)Edit password file and on home directory column make an entry like /home/./ftpdir
(eg;
test:*:102:108:Test Ftp user:/home/./ftpdir:/usr/bin/ftpshell
); 108 is group id for ftpusr
3) make entry in /etc/group like
ftpusr:108:test
4)make an entry for /usr/bin/ftpshell in /etc/shells. (perm 644 , root:sys)
5)Make a "usr/bin/" directory under /home.
6) copy ls from /sbin to here /home/usr/bin.(cp /sbin/ls /home/usr/bin) Perm: 555;bin:bin
7)Make entry /etc/ftpd/ftpaccess file accordingly. Basically cdpath entry is required. Do man ftpaccess for more information.

Happy ftp accessing.

Rgds
Tapas

[Avarsang Shankar]

Thank you for all the responses. It worked. It was very helpful.
Sanjay's link really helped me a lot.

[Joseph Loo]

hi,

judging from the response to those who have help you, i.e. "I have assigned points to 0 of 24 responses to my questions.", maybe it is time for you to read this:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#28

these people have help, so please assign some points, it is a "ITRC Forum" token of appreciation.

regards.

[Dani Seely]

Hello,
I assume this is your first experience on the ITRC forum as you did not award points to the forumers for the answers you were provided. May I suggest that you take a look at the following link to learn about the points system in use here. Thanks.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#28

Please read the article, assess the assistance you were provided by the forumers, then reward them. Thanks!