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[Nextel]

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

[RutRow]

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.

[comphost]

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