also sprach Auke van der Gaast (on Wed, 13 Jun 2001 05:04:53PM +0200): > I only want to give people access through FTP. Maybe it's a good > idea to give them access to the FTP folders of others too, but I > don't want them browsing through the whole harddisk. They only need > to be able to retreive or leave me files.
as far as i know, there are chroot ftp servers out there that will do precisely that. it's still problematic because of /lib and /bin/ls and other such stuff. > But if I do this as <user> > > cd /home > chmod o-rwx / > chmod o-wx /home > > Will that do the trick? And what do these last two lines do? only fo o-rw, not -rwx. the x right must remain. > chgrp root / > chgrp root /home they change the group membership of the files to the group "root" > Btw. since you're helping me; are you interested in Electronic Music? > You could find my tracks on www.deflect.org. (goto cyanide) very much so. i'll check it out. martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:" [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- "my father, a good man, told me: 'never lose your ignorance; you cannot replace it.'" -- erich maria remarque