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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Read Only user in Vsftpd Post 302934981 by rbatte1 on Thursday 12th of February 2015 06:19:48 AM
Old 02-12-2015
The user account that they connect with will have the permissions defined by the directories and files. If the connecting user is in group readgrp then you can make the directory & file permissions available read-only to that group, just as you would if the user were at the command line.



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CHROOT(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 						 CHROOT(8)

NAME
chroot -- change root directory SYNOPSIS
chroot [-u user] [-g group] [-G group,group,...] newroot [command] DESCRIPTION
The chroot utility changes its current and root directories to the supplied directory newroot and then exec's command, if supplied, or an interactive copy of the user's login shell. If the -u, -g or -G options are given, the user, group and group list of the process are set to these values after the chroot has taken place. ENVIRONMENT
The following environment variable is referenced by chroot: SHELL If set, the string specified by SHELL is interpreted as the name of the shell to exec. If the variable SHELL is not set, /bin/sh is used. SEE ALSO
chdir(2), chroot(2), setgid(2), setgroups(2), setuid(2), getgrnam(3), environ(7), jail(8) HISTORY
The chroot utility first appeared in 4.4BSD. BSD
June 7, 2003 BSD
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