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Hehe. Funny. Just replied the opposite to another question :<br />
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<a href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/20947316/Locking-certain-directories.html" rel="ugc">https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/20947316/Locking-certain-directories.html</a><br />
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This guy needs to restrict his users. I advised him to use the proper software : vsftpd.<br />
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You need to &quot;open up&quot;. So jlevie's advice of not using vsftpd is the good one :-)<br />

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Hehe. Funny. Just replied the opposite to another question :

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/20947316/Locking-certain-directories.html [https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/20947316/Locking-certain-directories.html]

This guy needs to restrict his users. I advised him to use the proper software : vsftpd.

You need to "open up". So jlevie's advice of not using vsftpd is the good one :-)


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I am running SUSE9 and trying to configure VSftp so that local users can log in and go to a common directory rather than go the individual home directorys.<br />
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I have tried a few things it mentions in the MAN file (not really much help) ie. secure_chroot_dir=/home/ft<wbr />p <br />
which doesnt work, I have also tried local_root=/home/ftp which does work but allows the user to cdup all the way to the root (not at all secure), not really sure why this is happening.<br />
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Is there a better way of doing this or is there an easier ftp program to use.<br />
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Thanks
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I am running SUSE9 and trying to configure VSftp so that local users can log in and go to a common directory rather than go the individual home directorys.

I have tried a few things it mentions in the MAN file (not really much help) ie. secure_chroot_dir=/home/ftp 
which doesnt work, I have also tried local_root=/home/ftp which does work but allows the user to cdup all the way to the root (not at all secure), not really sure why this is happening.

Is there a better way of doing this or is there an easier ftp program to use.

Thanks

VSftp Config

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