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Install pure-ftpd & restrict users to their home directories (Fedora/openSuse)
Posted by Sahil Bhatia in pure-ftpd on September 9, 2011
Hello everyone,
Steps to install pure-ftpd and jail users:
Note-1) On typing ‘ftp localhost’, if you get “Install command ‘ftp’ to provide command ‘ftp’? [N/y]” error message, don’t worry that perfectly normal. Simply type y. This is “ftp client binary”, whereas vsftpd is “ftp server”.
Step-1) To install pure-ftpd, on the terminal type:
su -c ‘yum -y install ftp pure-ftpd’
Step-2) To jail users to their home directories, on the terminal type:
su -c ‘[nano/vi/emacs] /etc/pure-ftpd/pure-ftpd.conf’
Search for text “ChrootEveryone” and change it’s value to “yes”.
Step-3) To allow local users to login, on the terminal type:
su -c ‘[nano/vi/emacs] /etc/pure-ftpd/pure-ftpd.conf’
Search for text “UnixAuthentication” and change it’s value to “yes”
Step-4) Restart service:
su -c ‘service pure-ftpd restart’
Step-5) If you skip this, you will get “500 OOPS: cannot change directory:/home/user_name” error when you login to ftp server.
su -c ‘setsebool -P ftp_home_dir on’
Congratulations! you have successfully jailed users to their respective home directories.
Step-6) To test, on the terminal windows type:
ftp localhost
(when prompted, enter local computer login credentials)
pwd
ls -lh
ls -lh ../../.. OR whatever you want to check.
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Install pure-ftpd & restrict users to their home directories (Ubuntu)
Posted by Sahil Bhatia in pure-ftpd on September 9, 2011
Hello everyone,
Steps to install pure-ftpd and jail users:
Step-1) To install pure-ftpd, on the terminal type:
sudo apt-get -y install pure-ftpd
Step-2) To jail users to their home directories, on the terminal type:
cd /etc/pure-ftpd/conf
sudo touch ChrootEveryone (Note: Please type the name as it is. It’s case-sensitive.)
sudo [nano/vi/emacs] ChrootEveryone
type ‘yes’ in the file, save and exit.
Step-3) Restart service:
sudo service pure-ftpd restart
Congratulations! you have successfully jailed users to their respective home directories.
Step-4) To test, on the terminal windows type:
ftp localhost
#(when prompted, enter local computer login credentials)
pwd
ls -lh
ls -lh ../../.. OR whatever you want to check.
I sincerely hope you liked it. Please leave your valuable comments and suggestions.
Guide to create virtual-user in pure-ftpd
Posted by Sahil Bhatia in pure-ftpd on September 4, 2011
NOTE: It is assumed that you are using root login.
‘Fedora / RedHat / OpenSuse’ users:
Step 1) Open terminal window and type:
yum install -y pure-ftpd
Ubuntu / Debian users:
Step 1) Open terminal window and type:
apt-get install -y pure-ftpd
Step 2) Create new system group.
groupadd [ftpgroup]
Step 3) Create new system user.
useradd -g [ftpgroup] -d /dev/null [ftpuser]
Step 4) Use pure-pw (tool provided by pure-ftpd) to create virtual user.
pure-pw useradd [username] -u [ftpuser] -d [/home/ftpusers/username]
On pressing enter, you will be asked to enter virtual user’s password & then again to confirm the same password.
Step 5) Untill here, changes are not saved by pure-ftpd. To commit changes enter the following command:
pure-pw mkdb
Step 6) To start pure-ftpd as standalone server type:
pure-ftpd -j -lpuredb:/etc/pure-ftpd/pureftpd.pdb &
Step -7) Success… Now, connect to the server using:
ftp localhost [or ipaddress]
enter virtual user credentials [username and password] as supplied in step 4, to login.