Thank you very much to:
Carlo Valpiari
Mitko Stoyanov
Carlotta Knapo
Steve Beikman
for their prompt responses.
My original message was:
> Managers,
>
> I am using wu-ftp 2.4, I have several users that have only ftp
> access and not telnet access. This is what their records in passwd
look
> like:
>
> pomtest:6yS7yqU2LJle4:110:103:FTP
> Account:/usr/data2/web/pomeroy:/etc/ftponly
>
> /etc/ftponly is just a dummy file, so that when someone tries to
telnet,
>
> they are not allowed and the session is closed.
>
> If I open an ftp session to my host and enter the appropiate username
> and password, I login fine but the program display the physical path
of
> the my home directory. And I am able to back up directories until I
> reach root. I have no idea why this change. Before, you couldn't
backup
> from your home directory and the path was '/' as if the login
directory
> was root.
>
> DO you know what is going on?
>
> Fredy Villa
I created a group that has ftp users as members. Then I inserted this
line in the ftpaccess file:
guestgroup ftpusers
Where ftpusers is the group I created. I didn't modify the entries in
the passwd file. This works fine.
Fredy Villa
Received on Tue Feb 03 1998 - 00:42:47 NZDT