VSFTP Config to send users to specific folders

See help instructions here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/vsftpd-chroot-problem-387883/

I think you are looking for this snippet of information:

All the users belonging to ftp-users group goes into /home/ftp-docs/ftp_stuff by default when they login. They cannot navigate in other directories and are restricted to this particular directory.

You do this:

Create a directory by issuing the following command as root:

mkdir -p /home/ftp-docs/ftp_stuff

Then do this:

chgrp ftp-users /home/ftp-docs/ftp_stuff
chmod -R 777 /home/ftp-docs/ftp_stuff

In the /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf write this :

chroot_list_enable=YES
chroot_list_file=/etc/vsftpd.chroot_list

Put all you ftp-users group userś name in /etc/vsftpd.chroot_list Then in the /etc/passwd file make the home directory of all the users belonging to ftp-users group to /home/ftp-docs/ftp_stuff.

Then do the following:

service vsftpd restart

Then login via any user belonging to ftp-users group you will lend into /home/ftp-docs/ftp_stuff. You cant go to the other higher level directories.

you can create multiple entries in the list for multiple groups. the order in which those groups are in the list file will dictate their highest directory I believe.

Hope that helps. Thomas


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