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Date:      Wed, 10 Jan 2001 12:26:55 -0500
From:      Jan Knepper <jan@digitaldaemon.com>
To:        Kyle Peterson <kyle.peterson@sk.sympatico.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Restricting users to home directory
Message-ID:  <3A5C9B5F.3090209@digitaldaemon.com>
References:  <000501c07b25$bef7a140$64d2010a@felix>

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Checkout proftpd
http://www.proftpd.net/

Use:
DefaultRoot ~
in the options section and users will be locked into the home directory 
you can specify, either in the /etc/passwd file or better in an 
alternate passwd file.

Jan



Kyle Peterson wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to restrict certain users on my FreeBSD 4.2 system so they can't
> leave their home directory.  I am trying  to set up certain accounts that
> will be used for ftp & I don't want the ftp user to be able to leave their
> home directory.  How would I do this?  Thank you.  Also, could you reply to
> both my e-mail address & the mailing list.
> 
> 
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