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Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 04:48:06 -0800
To: Shrikant <shrikant@corp.123india.com>, questions@FreeBSD.org

On October 28, 2003 4:34 am, Shrikant wrote:

>Dear All ,
>
>Is it possible that i give a Normal (without wheel rights) user to access
> my server using ftp ,and he can only browse thru his home directory not
> above that .If it is possbile pls reply me .

If you create the file /etc/ftpchroot and put the name of the user in that
file (one name per line), the ftp daemon in the base install will chroot the
user to their home directory. For exact details and more options, read the
ftpchroot manual page by typing "man ftpchroot" at a shell prompt.

Regards,
Ed

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