Limit ftp users to download files only

[Rita Li]

I need to limit my ftp users just for retrieving files output from our manufacturing application, located at their home directories, e.g. /home/users/xxx, So I've assigned rwxr-x--- to /home/users/xxx in order let the user right to write to their home directories. with r--r--r-- given to .profile, users still can delete it from ftp. Even worse, people upload lot of junk files from their desktops to the server

Q: How can I limit ftp users just able to do download only, absolutely NO upload or delete?

Users are using popular ftp s/w like ws_ftp, Cuteftp, ftp comes with Reflection, NetTerm
etc.

Thanks in advance for any input.

-Rita

[Trevor Dyson]

Hi,

read the man page for ftpaccess, look for the section on upload and delete capabilities.

By setting up the ftpaccess file you should be able to deny upload and delete capability for your users whilst allowing downloads to their PCs to occur.

Alternatively you could always shoot them ;-)

Let me know if you need more info.

[Rita Li]

Hi Trevor,

I am only able to find 'man ftpaccess' from my UX11.0 system. The system I am going to set is a UX 10.20 system, is this something not possible?

Best regards,

-Rita

[Trevor Dyson · Accepted solution]

HP-UX 11 uses the Washington Uni version of ftp

You can download a 10.X version from here:

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Networking/FTP/wu_ftpd-2.6.1/

Enjoy!