[ale] Group Rights

Dow Hurst dhurst at kennesaw.edu
Wed Sep 20 16:45:24 EDT 2000


Yeah,
The chrooted directory sounds like the real problem.  If Carl turns it
off so the true root is the ftp root directory, are there other security
precautions needed on the system?  Shouldn't the readability of /etc not
be allowed?  I am not familiar with this type stuff at this point other
than knowing that chrooting ftp is much safer when done properly.  I
have seen machines with no readability on certain directories for world.

Also, chrooted ftp servers have a definite structure to the chrooted
environment.  Can't Carl just add an additional path to the ftp config?
Dow


Carl Forsell wrote:
> 
> Good morning all...
> 
> I have a group of users who all need to be able to FTP into common areas on
> a SuSE 6.3 box.  I set up groups and gave the groups all rights to the
> directories (recursive).  When the users try to ftp in, they can see their
> home directories, but when they give the path for their web site
> directories, they get a "cannot find the directory" message.
> 
> If I assign their home directory to the web site directory, the problem goes
> away... however this has implications for their e-mail. Do I need to edit
> the password file to add a reference to the group?
> 
> Thank you in advance for any assistance.
> 
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