Subject: Re: your mail

From: Aissam <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 14:09:13 +0000

Hi, 
 i want to restrict access for users to there homepage (/home/user/ => /)
(chroot).
i've read the faq and i've found /./ used to do that for guest login ! 
but unfortunatly it doesn't work for normal user !

jave any idea ???

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From: Gregory A Lundberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 10:33:20 -0400 (EDT)

On Fri, 21 May 1999, Aissam wrote:

>  i want to restrict access for users to there homepage (/home/user/ =>
> /) (chroot). i've read the faq and i've found /./ used to do that for
> guest login !  but unfortunatly it doesn't work for normal user !

Recommended way: make all users guests.

Acceptable way: upgrade to VR17 and use restricted-uid

Best way: upgrade to VR17, make all users guests *and* use restricted-uid.

The location of the latest versions of wu-ftpd can be found in the 
directory
 
      ftp://ftp.vr.net/pub/wu-ftpd/
 
wu-ftpd Resource Center:  http://www.landfield.com/wu-ftpd/
wu-ftpd FAQ:              http://www.cetis.hvu.nl/~koos/wu-ftpd-faq.html
wu-ftpd list archive:     http://www.landfield.com/wu-ftpd/mail-archive/

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