Subject: guest account setup

From: Dave Jones <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 14:51:45 -0500

Hello all:

I have tried to set up a guest account (username:sprint) on a Linux
2.0.35 box running Wu-ftp, using the howto by Mike Brennen.

When I ftp in as the user, it is not chroot'ed to the home directory.  I
have hacked the passwd & group files correctly (I think) and restarted
the server, no luck.

I can jump up & down the directory structure from the home directory, of
course I can't see any files, but that still isn't right, is it?

Anyone out there running on a similar platform?

Thanks
Dave Jones

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From: Gregory A Lundberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 18:44:34 -0400 (EDT)

On Fri, 28 May 1999, Dave Jones wrote:

> When I ftp in as the user, it is not chroot'ed to the home directory.  
> I have hacked the passwd & group files correctly (I think) and
> restarted the server, no luck.
> 
> I can jump up & down the directory structure from the home directory,
> of course I can't see any files, but that still isn't right, is it?
> 

Millions.  Luckily only a few thousand will see you plea and not many, if
any, will answer.

Your problem is probably that the user is not EXPLICITLY named in
/etc/group as a member of the group named in /etc/ftpaccess guestgroup.

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