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How to give user access to WU-FTP without giving access to rest of file system

We have a user who we want to give read/write access to a directory we host via WU-FTP. We setup WU-FTP, set the users home directory to the ftp directory, gave the user read/write access and anonymous read only access. The problem is the user can traverse the filesystem. Is there a way to stop this while still giving the user read/write to the FTP server?

Server is Red Hat Ent 3.0, WU-FTP2.6.2-12

Thanks,
Robert

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rbowen00

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Duerk,

I couldn't get the solution you provided to work. I tried both a /. and a ./ at the end of the user directory. The account can still traverse directories. I'm running a standard install, could it be something that needs to be changed?

Thanks,
Robert

wesly_chen

Hi rbowen00,

Please read the following URL carefully:
http://www.wu-ftpd.org/HOWTO/guest.HOWTO

It's not just do what deurk's suggestion. You need to do more than that.

Wesly

deurk

You could also give a try at pure-ftpd which is easier to administer and maintain (allowing that kind of configuration really easily)