slightly OT: Way to prevent FTP users from changing dirs?

Solaris 2.6 Any hints on how to do this? I can prevent them from being able to telnet in, but once they ftp in, they can go pretty much anywhere... I've been told in the past that you could prevent a FTP user from being able to leave the directory they start off in, but I have no idea how to

Re: slightly OT: Way to prevent FTP users from changing dirs?

Jay, When they log in have their .profile (located in a directory other than that they will have access to) specify they operate in a restricted shell environment. Check out your man pages or other documentation on setting up either rsh or rksh. David A. Barbour Oracle DBA, OCP AISD

Re: slightly OT: Way to prevent FTP users from changing dirs?

jail. Once you have jailed the user, they cannot navigate above that point in the filesystem. SysAdmin Magazine runs articles such as this topic. In the May 2001 issue, the article Securing FreeBSD Using Jail covered this for FreeBSD. Unfortunately, the article is not available online. Here is

Re: slightly OT: Way to prevent FTP users from changing dirs?

anonymous ftp has these kinds of controls - maybe you could make use of that hth connor --- Jay Weinshenker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Solaris 2.6 Any hints on how to do this? I can prevent them from being able to telnet in, but once they ftp in, they can go pretty much anywhere...