SUMMARY:wu-ftp guest accounts won't chroot

From: Jason Kantz <jason_kantz_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1998 07:55:38 -0700 (PDT)

The frustrating poblem was this:

Trying to set up guest accounts which have limited access to the file
system using wu-ftp.

I religiously followed all of the great documentation at:
http://www.landfield.com/wu-ftpd/

But wu-ftp would not chroot, and guests had access to the entire file
system.

The cause of the problem?
A version of wu-ftp (that came on the "latest" Digital Internet Alpha
Server CD) that was from 1994.

The solution?
Download and compile the latest source which can be found at:
http://www.academ.com/academ/wu-ftpd/release.html

Thanks to Gregory A Lundberg and Tom Webster for looking over my
configuration.

And many thanks to Gernot Salzer for sharing the source code of a
version of wu-ftp that works on DU.

Jason Kantz
webmaster_at_aquinas.edu
Aquinas College
Grand Rapids, Michigan

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