Re: restricted ftp-only accounts on Solaris 7?

[Jonathan Crompton <J.Crompton@pyrite.demon.co.uk>]

John LLOYD wrote:
 
> 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.

If you don't mind switching to a different ftp daemon, proftpd will do
exactly what you want (including hiding files you don't want users to
see, making files appear to belong to them, even though they don't have
/etc/password file entries etc.).  I use this for allowing users to
upload web sites (hiding .htaccess from them).  It works well for me.

Jonathan.