I'm having an issue with vsftpd (on Fedora Core 3) I have three users: software, games, and music I made the following directories: /ftp/software /ftp/games /ftp/music and set each user's home directory to the relevant directory with the following commands: useradd -d /ftp/software software useradd -d /ftp/games games useradd -d /ftp/music music (I can't remember the commands; I think that's it, but anyhow, it worked) these accounts are going to be used just for FTPing and downloading the respective content; that's why I made their home directories as such. So ... when the user 'software' ftp's in (from internet explorer, or what have you), he is presented with 'software on p4' (a folder mapped to a windows share (he can traverse it and download anything in there fine) However, the problem arose when I went to a command prompt (in Windows) and ran the following : ftp ipaddress login: software password: blahblah** it logs in fine the problem is this ... if you type in 'cd ..' it actually takes you to the parent directory (/ftp) if you do it again, it takes you to root (/) In my opinion this is a problem. Is there a way to deny a particular user access to a particular directory and if not, how would I go about securing this? The user 'software' is even able to download from the other directories (like /etc) Thanks. B.J. Scott
