On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I try to setup the ftpd and to have chrooted users.
>
> 1. according to the ftpd man page, the users are in the password database,
> have
> a password
> and ksh as shell
> 2. their login name is not in /etc/ftpusers
> 3. their login name is in /etc/ftpchroot
>
>
> when I start the ftpd with -US
> the users can login but they are not chrooted
What is the user's home dir? How do you test if the user is chrooted or not?
>
> when I start the ftpd with -A
> then only anonymous ftp works, the ftpd states:
> 530 Sorry, only anonymous ftp allowed.
> ftp: Login failed.
>
> when I start the ftpd with -An login access is denied:
> 530 User ftp_user access denied.
> ftp: Login failed.
>
> I do not have the ftp-chroot variable set in login.conf, the man page of
> login.conf has
> nothing about the ftp-chroot variable, I guess I have to add it for the
> ftp_user, but do
> not know how.
>
> how do I define the ftp-chroot variable in login.conf, or am I missing
> something
> else?
If the user is in /etc/ftpchroot, there's no need to set ftp-chroot.
-Otto
