SBDavid
Jul 18th, 2009
Jul 18th, 2009
Restrict users to their home directory in VSFTP
Restrict users to their home directory in VSFTP
Sometimes you may want to restrict users to their home directory while doing FTP. You can achieve this in VSFTP with the following steps.
1. Open the VSFTPD configuration file “/etc/vsftpd.conf” . Uncomment the following lines.
chroot_local_user=YES
chroot_list_file=/etc/vsftpd.chroot_list
chroot_list_file=/etc/vsftpd.chroot_list
2. Create the file “/etc/vsftpd.chroot_list” and place the user names (one per line) that you want to restrict in that file.
3. Restart VSFTPD to take effect.
/etc/init.d/vsftpd restart
After this users listed in the file “/etc/vsftpd.chroot_list” will be locked up in their home directory.
