Re: restricted ftp-only accounts on Solaris 7?

[lglaze@iddg.com]

You can use the "guest ftp" priveldges within wu-ftpd, or you can use ncftpd. I 
personally feel that wu-ftpd has too many security problems (at least in the 
past when I used it) and prefer ncftpd. ncftpd is commercial, but it is only 
$50 for 100 users or something like that.

Larry

> How can I create or arrange for accounts allowing only ftp access to a
> certain set of directories?  Note that anonymous is insufficient; we want
> password authentication to be used, but we want the other features of
> "anonymous ftp" like chrooted directory, short list of authorized users
> independant of /etc/passwd, logging too.
> 
> Solaris 7 man ftpd shows a script to set this up (using native ftpd) but it
> seems to allow only for anonymous ftp.
> 
> 
> Choices so far:  
> 
> a) shell command that does a logout (ensures only ftp access, but leaves the
> user free to cd all over)
> b) fiddle with the Solaris script to see if anonymous can be turned off
> c) some sort of front end to the anonymous ftp to check a password 
> 
> 
> And, did I mention I need this working by Friday?
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> John
>