Allow Chroot VSFTPD User External File Access

September 24th, 2007 * Comments(6)

Scenario: FTP user is jailed to their home directory with chroot. FTP user needs to access an external directory (such as www).

Normally you would create a symbolic link in the user’s home directory.

cd /home/user
ln -s /var/www/html/userdomain.com www

But for some reason, this just doesn’t work with VSFTPD. After fiddling with permissions unsuccessfully for a few minutes, I found a better way.

cd /home/user
mkdir www
mount –bind /var/www/html/userdomain.com www

So you could either do it this way, or use PROFTPD.



6 Comments so far

  1. iceolate @ September 23rd, 2008

    this might be useful for some people at work. though i don’t know how many it would actually apply to.

  2. David @ December 16th, 2008

    Cheers for the tip.

  3. David @ December 16th, 2008

    Cheers for the tip.

  4. bperove @ December 16th, 2008

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN”>
    <html>
    <head>
    <meta content=”text/html;charset=UTF-8″ http-equiv=”Content-Type”>
    </head>
    <body bgcolor=”#ffffff” text=”#000000″>
    <font size=”-1″><font face=”Georgia”>approve</font></font>

  5. Thor @ March 14th, 2009

    Tnx 4 this tip…I needed to allow users to upload their content to their webspace – so read/write rts were only needed to the one user for the one /var/www/[user]- be aware that rights have to be set appropriatly, though…

    Thor

  6. Pirsey @ April 22nd, 2009

    If you want to read a reader’s feedback :) , I rate this post for four from five. Decent info, but I have to go to that damn msn to find the missed pieces. Thanks, anyway!

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