Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 00:51:20 -0600 From: Damien Tougas <dtougas@converging.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Users sharing the same home directory Message-ID: <19990929005120.A53190@converging.net>
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Hello, I currently have several users sharing the same home directory. The reason I am doing this is because I want them all to be chroot'd into the same directory with ftpd, and I do not want to give them all the same username and password. The way I have done this is by putting them all in the same group, I made the home directory owned by one of the users, and set the directory permissions as 0770. This works great for ftp, as I had expected it to. The problem arises with telnet. When a user telnets in, they are not put in the common home directory, an error message is printed which says: No home directory. Logging in with home = "/". and a server error message which says: login: _secure_path: cannot stat /home_directory_path/.login_conf: Permission denied What exactly does this mean, and is there a way around it, or do I just have to live with it? I was doing this all quite nicely with ProFTPd, but with all the security stuff that was going on, I decided to revert to the vanilla ftpd. Too bad though, because ProFTPd allows me to create ftp only users, they don't even need to show up in master.passwd. -- Damien Tougas Converging Technology Solutions, Inc. Phone: (780)469-1679 Fax: (780)461-5127 E-mail: dtougas@converging.net http://www.converging.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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