FTP account

Anonymous

I use Red Hat, Apache and ProFTPD. Now I like to create FTP user accounts (via SSH) but only for FTP Access and to only one certain directory (for uploading files). How can be restricted this?

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Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 2005-01-13 05:47. login or register to post comments

db
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Re: FTP account

If you only want one, why not just use anonymous ftp?
VSFTPD by default allows anonymous logins and you can only upload I believe.

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Dave Brown


Thu, 2005-01-13 08:34 login or register to post comments

Anonymous
Re: FTP account

No, I want to create more users. However, I have to enable anonymous access too (in one directory)

please,


Thu, 2005-01-13 17:59 login or register to post comments

db
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Re: FTP account

I suppose just create them and make their shell in /etc/passwd be :
/bin/nologin instead of /bin/bash
They won't be able to login but can ftp? Not sure if this is the case...anyone?

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Dave Brown


Thu, 2005-01-13 23:05 login or register to post comments

schultmc
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Re: FTP account

[quote="db"]I suppose just create them and make their shell in /etc/passwd be :
/bin/nologin instead of /bin/bash
They won't be able to login but can ftp? Not sure if this is the case...anyone?[/quote]

Proftpd can operate with its own passwd and group files, allowing you to create FTP only accounts. I haven't figured out how to disallow normal system users from logging in via FTP though.

The documentation section of www.proftpd.org was pretty helpful last time I setup ProFTPD - it even features some example configurations. I don't have an FTP server currently setup and haven't set one up in a while so I don't think I can be of too much help other than pointing out the documentation.


Fri, 2005-01-14 10:25 login or register to post comments