Restricting ftp users to their directory

[loony at loonybin.org (Peter Arremann)]

On Tuesday 06 September 2005 18:25, Todd Cary wrote:
> Currently, a users directory is owned by the user and the group is ftp.
> The permissions are 775.
You mean the users home directory, right?


> In reading the MAN pages for vsftp, I do not see any other ways to
> retrict the user from just being able to view their won directory and
> the sub-dirs.
Not sure what exactly you're trying to do, but a user will always have access 
to his own home directly. If you don't want that then I guess you will have 
to create separate users for the ftp access...

Peter.