SUMMARY Restricted ftp account

From: Siddiqi Farhan A (SiddiqiFarhanA@JDCORP.deere.com)
Date: Fri May 08 1998 - 14:18:15 CDT


Thanx to all that replied. I didn't get an exact answer but from the
majority of the suggestions I got, it seems like wu-ftp might be the answer.
I will install that and try to see if that will help. Another simple
solution was to leave everything how I have it setup and just run a cron job
to change the ownership and permission.

Farhan Ahmed Siddiqi
Distributed Services
Deere & Company
Moline. IL 61265
PH: (309) 748-5057

e-mail: SiddiqiFarhanA@jdcorp.deere.com
<mailto:SiddiqiFarhanA@jdcorp.deere.com>

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                                It just happens to be highly selective about
who it makes friends with

-----Original Message-----
From: Siddiqi Farhan A
Sent: Friday, May 08, 1998 11:00 AM
To: sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.gov
Subject: Restricted ftp account

Hi Sm's
        I am trying to setup a limited ftp account to ftp files to a certain
directory under the document root of a webserver. The account should not be
able to change directories. All this user should be able to do is put files
there and change the ownership of the files to the webserver id and maybe
chmod on those files.
Restricted shells don't work with ftp at least on Solaris 2.5.1 ( They work
for Telnet and rlogin)
Also I don't want to setup an anonymous ftp server with sublogins as
suggested by sunsolve. ( As this is needed only for a few users ).

This is how I have it now. I have a false shell for this user, so he can
only ftp the files and his home directory is the directory he needs to
modify. So that restricts him to that directory. The problem is that he
cannot chown or chmod.

Thanx.. will summarize
Farhan Ahmed Siddiqi
Distributed Services
Deere & Company
Moline. IL 61265
PH: (309) 748-5057

e-mail: SiddiqiFarhanA@jdcorp.deere.com
<mailto:SiddiqiFarhanA@jdcorp.deere.com>

        |Contrary to popular opinion, UNIX is user friendly.
                                It just happens to be highly selective about
who it makes friends with

 



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