Subject: DO I Need a usr,dev,lib,etc directory for *ALL* my Users?

From: Patrick Pinchera <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 22:41:00 -0400

I have anonymous ftp working OK. But what I want to do now is set up wu-ftp
so that some specific users can ftp using their own id's and passwords, and
have wu-ftp drop them into their *OWN* directory so that a 'pwd' says
they're in '/', but they are really in their own HOME directory 
(i.e. /export/home/users/customers/user01).

I got this working for one user, but I had to run the setup script (from
Solaris 2.5 ftpd man page) in the user's account, so that in
/export/home/users/customers/user01, some new directories were created:
        bin (a link), usr, dev, etc, & pub

Here's the question: do I need to run this script and set up these
directories in *ALL* of my users HOME directories?  

PROS: 
        When a user ftp's in, they get dropped into their HOME directory and
it         looks like '/' to them (i.e. they can't go anyewhere and hurt
anyone but         themselves).

CONS:   A little more work on my part for each new user;
        A little wasteful of disk resource (about 2.5 Mb, mostly in the usr
directory)

If I set up the usr,bin,dev,etc,pub directories one level higher, say in
/export/home/user/customers, and make the correct entry in the /etc/passwd file:
    user01:x:User01 FTP Account:/export/home/users/customers/./user01:/bin/false
they still get dropped into /export/home/users/customers/user01, but the
'pwd' command shows that they are in "/user01", and they can 'cd ..' and
look around.

Has anyone got any ideas on this subject? I'm sure people have done this
sort of thing before.  I looked in the FAQ and saw nothing like it. 
Thanks in advance.

Pat
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