Creating a restricted user

[numungbah]

Hi all

We have two E220R server in our organisation. These are used as
prototype, proof of concept boxes and as such do not have many users
set up. In fact we have two standard users that we created to do most
of the Oracle and i-Planet admin. I am the only guy who knows anything about these boxes -
and I admit I dont know that much !!

We now have a need to allow our field based staff FTP access to an
application directory to upload files.

We want to create a user who can do this but cannot browse the rest
of the system, ie any directory above the application directory.

I have read about setting up Anonymous FTP - it doesnt quite forfill
our needs as this should not be an anonymous FTP login, we will
create a specific user and password.

We cannot use this directory as the FTP users home directory as it
must be owned by the
application username.

Can anyone give any hints or tips to set up a user who can only
upload to a specified directory, nothing else?

Thanks all
Martyn

ps - ive been messing with CygWin and have a full KDE desktop running
under Win2K !! Why bother I hear you say - seeing as my IT dept will
not let me scrub my Win2K manchine and replace it with Linux, I will
do my best to irritate them with any form of Unix I can within
Windoze !

 

[bluedevils]

try installing wu-ftp. It meets all your needs

 

[fearon]

wu-ftpd is definetely the way to go:

ftp://ftp:wu-ftpd.org/pub/wu-ftpd

When you create the user account give them a login shell of /usr/ftponly (which is an entry in /etc/shells).