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Subject: Restricting FTP home directory (chroot?)
From: Michael Tucker (mtuckerENERGYGRAPHICS.COM)
Date: Fri Jul 07 2000 - 12:18:45 CDT

Greetings, all:

I've just set up our company's FTP site (locally hosted on a Solaris 7
machine, using the default ftpd daemon). Formerly, our FTP site was hosted
by our ISP. Our customers had login accounts to our site, and each customer
had their own home directory. After logging in, they were apparently
chrooted to their home directory, because it looked like "/" to them (like
anonymous ftp). The site I've set up has the "default" behavior, i.e. their
home directory looks like
"/export/home/ftp/...blah...blah.../their_directory", instead of "/".

Pardon my ignorance; I've been a software developer and sometime admin for
over 20 years, and this seems like something that should be obvious to me.
But it isn't, so here I am asking: what do I need to do, so that our user's
FTP sessions are contained to their home directory?

Thanks,
Michael Tucker (MCT578)
mtuckerenergygraphics.com