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Subject: Re: FTP & File Permissions
From: Gordon Messmer <yinyang@eburg.com>
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 12:05:16 -0700
> Joel Lansden wrote:
> I have users configured as FTP users only, so they cannot leave their
> home directories in FTP. So now I'm left with this bizarre
> phenomena: when logged in via FTP, the DIR command returns nothing.
> The LS command returns everything.
The easiest way to handle this (I've found) is to compile your own
static copy of "ls". Create a "bin" directory in the home directory of
each user, and copy your static "ls" there. If you plan to add a lot of
these, you should create a "bin" dir with the static "ls" in /etc/skel.
As pointed out, if you don't want to compile a static "ls", you could
copy the "lib" and "bin" directories from /home/ftp into each user's
home directory.
A third option would be to run an FTP server that does _not_ call
system("/bin/ls") for a directory listing, but has its own ls function
built in. I believe that ProFTPd has this feature. (But I don't
recall)