Allow Chroot VSFTPD User External File Access
September 24th, 2007 
Comments(6)
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
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
mkdir www
mount –bind /var/www/html/userdomain.com www
So you could either do it this way, or use PROFTPD.
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this might be useful for some people at work. though i don’t know how many it would actually apply to.
Cheers for the tip.
Cheers for the tip.
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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
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!