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Date:      Mon, 07 May 2001 19:04:39 -0400
From:      Walter Betancourt <walt@betan.com>
To:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: restricting ftp access
Message-ID:  <4.2.2.20010507190353.00b77450@pop3.palace.net>
In-Reply-To: <15095.9137.554752.798356@guru.mired.org>
References:  <1692265@toto.iv>

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as I was just trying to do this without success, I'll hold my breath

and wait to see any reply.



At 05:37 PM 5/7/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Nathan Vidican <webmaster@wmptl.com> types:
> > man chmod, man chown
> >
> > You can change the permissions structure so as not to allow a user to
> > exit a directory. For example: user is logged into /home/users/someuser,
> > they can cd to /home/users, but not down to /home; and therefore not to
> > anything below /home (eg: /etc).
>
>Have you actually done this, and made it work? If so, I'd be
>interested to know what permissions you used - and on which
>directories - as my experience is that this can't be done. A process
>has to be able to read / and /home in order to get to /home/users,
>which means they can get to anything in / and /home.
>
>         <mike
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Walt


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