I dunno that exercise sounds a little hairy to me. Maybe I have not had the nads trying to give root something as insane and insecure as ftp access. By giving root access to ftp root will have complete access to all files regardless what it's home directory should be. > If I edit /etc/passwd > > from > user.org.au:x:517:517:user.org.au:/home/user.org.au:/bin/false > to > user.org.au:x:517:517:user.org.au:/home/user.org.au/www:/bin/false > > am I altering the users' root ? or, the location where ftp will log him to > ? > > what I'm trying to do is: > > I have web users, all they need, is to ftp (or, scp) files to their web > server root, they do not need or have shell/telnet/ssh access. > > I now have: > > /home/user1.com.au (owned by root) > /home/user1.com.au/www (owned by user1.com.au) > > ftp login takes user to /home/user1.com.au > > will I cause any probs editing /etc/passwd so > ftp login will take user to /home/user1.com.au/www directly ? > > (hmmm, now that I typed it up, I'm not sure anymore if I should do that, > anyhow) > > (and, thanks to all for the help so far) > > Voytek Eymont -- Regards,
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