Martin Henne wrote: > On my system I want to keep users from > browsing the '/home' directory. Unfortunately, > when I do a 'chmod o-r /home', the user > can't login via ftp anymore.
Hi Martin (I'm BCC-ing you since your email was anti-spam munged), Stefan already addressed your main question, so this is a little off-topic. But if you are concerned about security, you should be much more worried about the fact that you are permitting user logins by FTP than that the users can read some files in /etc. Are you aware that FTP transmits passwords over the 'net without encryption, so anyone snooping on the connection could steal them? I suggest SFTP as an alternative -- it unfortunately isn't as featureful as some FTP clients, but at least it will encrypt passwords. [If you are only using FTP on a closed trusted LAN, of course, I withdraw the comment.] -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
