Re: restricted ftp-only accounts on Solaris 7?

["Stephen P. Potter" <spp@spotter.yi.org>]

I don't have access to a SUN box this evening, but if I remember correctly,
you can create a chrooted environment for FTP by placing a /./ within the
home directory in the passwd file.  For example:

spp:x:2112:2112:Stephen Potter:/export/home/./spp:/bin/sh

will chroot to /export/home/spp.  Don't forget to set up the rest of the
chroot stuff in ~spp/{bin,etc,lib} and such.

You can create an FTP-only shell fairly simply in C, just have it do an
exit() only.  Then place this program in /etc/shells.  I can verify and
test all this tomorrow.

-spp

Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and John LLOYD <jal@mda.ca> whispered:
| 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.