Be a little careful. If the user's home directory is accessible from the
web then various dot files in their home directory might become
accessible. If you don't trust the users then you might not even want to
give them access to what the system thinks of as their home directories.
My preferred solution is to use ncftpd as my ftp server which gives far
more configurability than most ftp servers, and should make it easy for
you to set the default directory on log in, and access to different
directories without messing with the user's home directory in /etc/passwd.
Andrew McNaughton
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Voytek Eymont wrote:
> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 12:55:07
> From: Voytek Eymont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [SLUG] editing passwd: alters home dir location ? or
>
> If I edit /etc/passwd
>
> from
> user.org.au:x:517:517:user.org.au:/home/user.org.au:/bin/false
> to
> user.org.au:x:517:517:user.org.au:/home/user.org.au/www:/bin/false
>
> am I altering the users' root ? or, the location where ftp will log him to
> ?
>
> what I'm trying to do is:
>
> I have web users, all they need, is to ftp (or, scp) files to their web
> server root, they do not need or have shell/telnet/ssh access.
>
> I now have:
>
> /home/user1.com.au (owned by root)
> /home/user1.com.au/www (owned by user1.com.au)
>
> ftp login takes user to /home/user1.com.au
>
> will I cause any probs editing /etc/passwd so
> ftp login will take user to /home/user1.com.au/www directly ?
>
> (hmmm, now that I typed it up, I'm not sure anymore if I should do that,
> anyhow)
>
> (and, thanks to all for the help so far)
>
> Voytek Eymont
>
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