Restricted FTP unable to view file by ls

[Farida Rajkotwala]

hello!
I was wondering if someone can guide to
enable restricted ftp on my system.
So that the users can not look at the listing
by ls, they can get the files that they
know exist.

Thanks,
Farida

[Berlene Herren]

On 11.X you can install the latest FTP patch and enable WU-FTPD functionality. After installation, there is a great file place in /usr/share/doc that explains how to use this functionality. Perhaps that will help.

Unfortunately, this is not supported on 10.20

Berlene

[Rob Mallard]

If you change the UNIX permissions on the directory to execute only then a user (including a ftp user) can cd to the directory but ls will report 0 files:

chmod 711 /ftpdir

[Rita C Workman]

If you've created a restricted FTP, did you remember to create (under the restricted users home directory) a bin directory and then do:

cp /usr/bin/pwd /home//bin
cp /sbin/ls /home/bin
chmod 0111 /home//bin/ls
chmod /home//bin/pwd
chown root /home//bin
chmod 0555 /home//bin

Just a thought,
/rcw

..please note above to copy ls from /sbin !!