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Use chroot. There are plenty of nice step-by-step explanations on the web for this, just search for &quot;chroot jail&quot;.<br />
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Here are some examples:<br />
<a href="http://www.kegel.com/crosstool/current/doc/chroot-login-howto.html" rel="ugc">http://www.kegel.com/crosstool/current/doc/chroot-login-howto.html</a><br />
<a href="http://www.geniusweb.com/LDP/HOWTO/Chroot-BIND8-HOWTO.html" rel="ugc">http://www.geniusweb.com/LDP/HOWTO/Chroot-BIND8-HOWTO.html</a>
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Use chroot. There are plenty of nice step-by-step explanations on the web for this, just search for "chroot jail".

Here are some examples:
http://www.kegel.com/crosstool/current/doc/chroot-login-howto.html [http://www.kegel.com/crosstool/current/doc/chroot-login-howto.html]
http://www.geniusweb.com/LDP/HOWTO/Chroot-BIND8-HOWTO.html [http://www.geniusweb.com/LDP/HOWTO/Chroot-BIND8-HOWTO.html]

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Just use an ftp server that makes all this right away for you : vsftpd.<br />
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<a href="http://vsftpd.beasts.org/" rel="ugc">http://vsftpd.beasts.org/</a><br />
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You can find RPMs for most distros.<br />

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Just use an ftp server that makes all this right away for you : vsftpd.

http://vsftpd.beasts.org/ [http://vsftpd.beasts.org/]

You can find RPMs for most distros.


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Im sure ive done it before with just chmod though, however this time if i chmod the html folder or any others below to 700 it wont let the site work
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Im sure ive done it before with just chmod though, however this time if i chmod the html folder or any others below to 700 it wont let the site work

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Got it working now, i made the group apache have access, and the user who is the web master, then chmoded it 750<br />
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Thanks
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Got it working now, i made the group apache have access, and the user who is the web master, then chmoded it 750

Thanks

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I am running a website, where i would like to give people FTP access, when the user ftps in they start in<br />
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/home/%username%<br />
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if they wander to /var/www/html they can access all the html thats stored on the site. I dont want them to be able to access these folders, is there anything i can do??
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I am running a website, where i would like to give people FTP access, when the user ftps in they start in

/home/%username%

if they wander to /var/www/html they can access all the html thats stored on the site. I dont want them to be able to access these folders, is there anything i can do??

Locking certain directories

The Linux operating system, in all its flavors, has its own share of security flaws that allow intrusions, but there are various mechanisms by which these flaws can be removed, generally divided into two parts: authentication and access control. Authentication is responsible for ensuring that a user requesting access to the system is really the user with the account, while access control is responsible for controlling which resources each account has access to and what kind of access is permitted.