[vox-tech] Setting default directory for FTP users

Micah J. Cowan micah at cowan.name
Fri Apr 14 13:17:24 PDT 2006


On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 01:03:05PM -0700, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
> 
> Micah J. Cowan wrote:
> 
> > Of course, in your specific example, why not set his actual home
> > directory to wherever you want him to go in the first place? Since he
> > won't be logging in, he'll never need a separate home.
> 
> Thanks.  That's exactly what I wound up doing.  :)
> 
> Of course, I may end up disabling FTP altogether and only allowing SSH and
> SCP.  That's my preference; we'll see how it goes.

I thought you said you were disabling the shell logins?

If that's the route you're aiming for, have you thought about sftp? I
mean, as long as you've got sshd involved...

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Micah J. Cowan
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