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How to set up security - ftp users seem to be able to read too much
  • From: dids <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 15:59:10 +0000
  • Message-id: <20011125155511.7C33BE63E4@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
I need to set up my server to allow ftp access from the net.

I set up a user,
but this seemed to allow the user into way too many directories.
so i created a new group of ftp_adsl and moved the user to this.

I then changed the /home directory to only be readable to users, groups
this was a little better, as now the user couldnt go into other users folders.

However the user can still read all the contents of directories like /etc


Is there a standard way to add users and set them up to minimal permissions.
I had thought that yast would set the permissions to be secure enough.

dids

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