ftp user

[Gabriele FACCHINI]

Good morning at all. I have a problem:
I have a ftp user, pippo, that has a home dir called /home/pippo. This user has to put files in 2 dir /portale, /intranet. What do i have to do to let this user put files into only this dir but without given read acces to other dir under /, leaving the same dir permissions?
Thanks a lot.

[Ravi_8]

Hi,

when the file is under a directory, the owner of that directory can read the file.
for ur task best way is to use "crypt" and "encrypt" to unlock

[Marcin Wicinski]

Hi,
I would do this:
user pippo should be registered as guest (see man pages for ftp) ftp user. You can restrict permissions for guest user to access only to his home dir (he sees his home dir as /). Then you can put links to required dir into pippo's home dir.
Later,

[Sanjay_6]

Hi,

you can configure ftpaccess to restrict the user access to certain directories and also his ability to read/write/overwrite files.

http://us-support3.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=804307f00266bf265f/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000055935266

http://us-support3.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=804307f00266bf265f/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000055253542

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Joseph C. Denman]

Gabriele,

Sanjay is right on target. You will need to set up ftpaccess.

man 4 ftpaccess

Also, you will need to modify the ftpd entry in you inetd.conf to add the -a option. This option tell ftpd to use the ftpaccess configuration file.

man ftpd


Hope this helps,

...jcd...

[matteo casarino]

Hi,
the previous suggested has centered the target. But on my opinion you can also create a gruop of user (with pippo inclueded) that have the right permission on /portale /intranet.

bye

[Gabriele FACCHINI]

hi Sanjay, I have an european login, and then i couldn't see this documents. Do you have a link in a euuropean site?
thanks.

[Sanjay_6 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

substitute "us-support3" with europe-support and the link will take you to the european link for the doc suggested above by me.

Hope this helps.

regds

[Gabriele FACCHINI]

Hi Sanjay, thanks for your help.
I have made some of this tips, but i have a question:
the user pippo that has home /home/pippo, must to put files into only two dir, /pluto/paperino/topolino/minni and /pluto/paperino/osvaldo/minni, but i want that this user don't has read permission in other directories and files under /. I have created 2 symbolik link under root portale@ -> /pluto/paperino/topolino/minni and intranet@ -> /pluto/paperino/osvaldo/minni. What do i have to do to make it possible?
thanks. Gabriele

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Gabriele,

If you are using ftpaccess to configure this user. Let the user homedirectory be /home/pippo. set two aliases that will allow the user to move into the two directories where you want him to put the files. If you set ftpaccess, the system does a chroot when the user logs into ftp, so he sees his homedirectory as root and the original root is invisible to him. You can allow the user to write into the two directories you want. He won't be allowed to move into any other direcroty. Do a "man ftpaccess" which will help you a little more in understanding how you can configure the ftpaccess top suit your needs.

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Gabriele,

If you want to take a printout of the ftpaccess man page, do this,

man ftpaccess |col -b |lp

to copy the many page to a file,

man ftpaccess |col -b >/tmp/ftpaccess.man

The "col -b" will remove the control characters from the man page.

Hope this helps.

Regds