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Date:      Sat, 13 Sep 1997 18:20:53 -0400 (EDT)
From:      jack <jack@diamond.xtalwind.net>
To:        Craig Shrimpton <craigs@os.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Hiding user directories without breaking ftp?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970913181039.8943A-100000@zeus.xtalwind.net>
In-Reply-To: <341A2175.1F99A249@os.com>

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On Sat, 13 Sep 1997, Craig Shrimpton wrote:

> Is /bin/ls hardcoded in the source or does it find ls via the path in a chroot'd
> environment?
> 
> Susie Ward wrote:
> 
> > Why not use wu-ftpd with the guest group, this will chroot the users into
> > their own home directories and they can't back out past that. I'm using
> > this with great success and I only hafta put /bin/ls in each users
> > directory.

ls is the fly in the ointment.  :( I got around it by putting a statically
linked copy of ls in /usr/home/bin and creating a bin directory in each
user's home directory with a hard link to /usr/bin/ls. 

/usr/home/bin and /usr/home/bin/ls are both owned by root with 111
permissions.

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