[ale] FTP Server on Linux

[Matthew Brown]

Glad you said that.  I thought it was just me!

-----Original Message-----
 From: Jeremy T. Bouse <undrgrid at undergrid.net>
To: Ed Landa <elanda at comstar.net>
Cc: ale at ale.org <ale at ale.org>
Date: Monday, January 25, 1999 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] FTP Server on Linux


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>On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Ed Landa wrote:
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>> Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 11:57:50 -0500
>> From: Ed Landa <elanda at comstar.net>
>> To: ale at ale.org
>> Subject: Re: [ale] FTP Server on Linux
>>
>> Depending on your FTP server, you can chroot customers into their own
>> directories.
>>
>> If you are using wuftpd, check out the man page 'ftpaccess'.  Here is an
>> excerpt from the relevant part :
>>
>>        guestgroup <groupname> [<groupname> ...]
>
> A big reason against this method is the fact that as a
>'guestgroup' commands like 'ls' don't work... meanin the customer has to
>walk through their home directory blind... which is not how anon FTP
>access works... I tried this method once before and I just tried it again
>and it still doesn't work... even copying the ~ftp/bin directory to
>~user/bin doesn't work with guestgroup...
>
> Respectfully,
> Jeremy T. Bouse
> Sr. System Administrator
>
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