Hi,
please note that you cannot chroot users to a specific directory when using
SFTP. It could be a security issue depending of the level of trust of your
end users. Every user of the SFTP service could access to the whole system
if not properly implemented.
You can just give access to the SFTP subsystem to a few trusted users by
changing the access rights of the sftp program.
On the other hand, you can use vsftpd with SSL support and chroot your users
to their home. I never used it with SSL, but this howto seems to explain
how to achieve this :
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_vsftpd
You could have to adjust the howto to your distribution.
I hope this will help.
On 6/21/06, Edmund R. MacKenty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 10:23, Charlie Crochet wrote:
>Due to size restrictions that will soon be placed on email attachments,
we
> are looking for a secure FTP server that runs on zLInux that will allow
us
> to exchange large files. The "product" should not require the outside
user
> to have a "product" client.
You're going to need something on the client side to authenticate with the
server. Why not use sftp, which is a SSH service? The UI is just like a
command-line FTP client, so your users probably know it. All Linux and
most
UNIX systems already have it installed, and Windows users can download the
PuTTY client, psftp, from here:
http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/psftp.exe
I've used it for years for just that purpose.
- MacK.
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Edmund R. MacKenty
Software Architect
Rocket Software, Inc.
Newton, MA USA
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