Hey! Hows it going? Had a quick question. I have been struggling for the past day trying to figure this out, but no luck :(

What is the command using addduser to create an FTP account, with no shell access and that the person cannot CDUP from their FTP program?

Please help!!
Thanks in advance.

-James

useradd -s /bin/false USERNAME

Then add /bin/false to /etc/shells.

As far as not being able to CDUP, that depends on the ftp daemon you run. For ProFTPD, I use DefaultRoot ~ in my config file.

read how to ftp chroot the ftp

for example using FreeBSD and their normal ftpd


you would use the ftponly shell i think its /usr/bin/ftponly

you would then edit /etc/ftp.chroot and add all groups
or individual logins to this file

say you use group hostingclient for all your clients
then you would put

@hostingclients

or for group hosting clients and individual simply put

@hostingclients
usename

If you chroot a user then you must be sure to have your
ftp re-compiled with internal LS so they can view files
otherwise nothing will show up as they dont see
/bin/ls