User Access restriction.

[GiL A. Virtucio]

to restrict users from navigating outside their home directories through FTP 
try using an FTP server that support chrooting. you might want to check 
proftpd.  http://www.proftpd.org/
it is also included in the ports collection.

hope this helps :)


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marwan Sultan" <dead_line at hotmail.com>
To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 5:15 AM
Subject: User Access restriction.


> Hello Everyone,
>
>  I have a server Up and running, 4.8-R, (well why 4.8? its up since years)
>  However, this server is for commercial use, recently, we started Home 
> pages hosting,
>  which requier me to give the user access to the shell,
>
>  Well, the question,
>
>  Lets say, I have 2 groups, Group1, Group2
>  under Groupe1 is the webpages shell accounts (user accounts)
>  and group2, just shell users,
>
>  If user1 from Group1 will ftp or ssh to the box, his default home path 
> will be
>  /home/group1/user1
> But, he still can navigate thro his FTP or ssh to see the directories and 
> read files of group1 or
> group2, and play around lilbit,
>
> PLEASE how to restrict this user from going outside his shell account and 
> restrict him from
> viewing others folders and webpages ? If i will chmod to something 
> limited, then even when
> he browse the web to his webpage it wont work,
>
> So how to have the restriction in the same time viewing his web thro any 
> browser worldwide?
>
> Sorry for the long email.
>
> Thank you,
> Marwan
>
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