Re: [Sheflug] proftp

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 02:09:24PM +0100, Mark Broadbent wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > im using SuSE 6.2 use proftp to allow students at our college to
> > upload there files to the web server.
> > Does anyone know how to configure proftp or know of another ftp
> > daemon that prevents users from going outside there home directory.

	Apart from the words of wisdom Mark had about the permissions,
the way to have a sandbox for proftpd is quite simple (this is for
1.2.0, I don't know whether it has changed a lot of late). Go to
/etc/proftpd.conf, and add the following line
DefaultRoot	~/public_html

	Restart process and off you go :)
-- 
José L Gómez Dans			PhD student
					Radar & Communications Group
					Department of Electronic Engineering
					University of Sheffield UK
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