VSFTPD - Linux (CentOS 5) - Making a single dir FTP root

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I have a VPS running CentOS5 with Apache 2.2 and mySQL, as well as VSFTPD for ftp. The user liam is a system user.

I want to make the /home/html directory the ftp root for the liam user, so that when the liam user logs in via an ftp client, he sees only the contents of the /home/html directory.

How could I do this?

Is 'liam' a system account or are you using vsFTPd's virtual users? — Aaron Copley, Feb 22 '12 at 16:51

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:14

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First, you'll have to make the /home/html directory the home directory of the user liam. To do this, execute the following as root:

# usermod -d /home/html liam

You then need to set chroot_local_user=YES in the vsftpd config file.

There is a security aspect to using this setting, as described in this serverfault question.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:14

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answered Feb 22 '12 at 17:38

p1100i

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+1 for adding the home dir. I guess that is what I get for trying to answer this on my phone. – Feb 22 '12 at 18:03
i will +1 yours if i get my points, because u gave the half of it :] – p1100i Feb 22 '12 at 18:04

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 22 '12 at 17:25

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If liam is a system account you can enable ch_root to jail the user in the home directory. In your vstpd.conf just change the following lines:

chroot_local_user=YES

answered Feb 22 '12 at 17:25

VSFTPD - Linux (CentOS 5) - Making a single dir FTP root

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