vsftpd Configuration Assistance

[Quella]

This is the first time I have used vsftpd and I have a need to get it up and running for a temporary transfer of some data to a user in another country. I'm looking at sandboxing the user to a secure directory and wish to disallow any changing or creation of directories. I want the user to login (with a User/Pass, non-ananymous) to the box and be dropped in to the directory to see the data to be taken. I have played with some of the options and looksed at a few suggested configs without getting it to work. The best I could do was have the system login and place the user in a directory. 'ls' would not work, or it would fail for some reason. I could not '..' or 'cd' which I wanted. I also tried to just do a 'mget *' and it said nothing to get.

Can someone who may have done such, or may have some suggestions provide some insight? I would be happy to receive otehrs config files to look at if you wish to post them. My biggest request is to have one special secured directory that the user is dropped in and can list and download the files in that directory only. All other things will be prevented.

Thoughts or comments?

Quella

[tconway]

Your almost there, the jailroot seems good (no cd..) but the directory is empty.
ls does not work under ftp, use dir

Ftp again and do pwd (present working directory) to find out where you are.
If you're using normal user logins it should be their home directory.
I would setup users specifically for ftp that have a shell of /bin/false or /dev/null
This will stop anyone from telnet or ssh if they get the password.

[Quella]

Thanks for the reply. I think with the guest_allow enabled and the root_directory set to "/home/ftpusers/" this should be the place they are dropped. Yet from within the FTP client, I see '/' when I do a pwd. I'm not sure if this is from the root command, or it is being dropped in the root fo the drive. I have also tried to 'cd' to the right location, yet the configuration prevents the use of the 'cd' command. So this fails each time.

I will try the 'dir' and not 'ls' command and see what I get.

Quella

[tconway]

I forgot pwd will return / because you have a proper chroot_root
If you've set chroot to yes then users will be changed to their home directory

Put a file in the home directory you log in as to see if that's where your getting to, also if your are going to the proper directory, make sure the rights are setup properly too.