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Diffstat (limited to 'libexec/ftpd/ftpchroot.5')
| -rw-r--r-- | libexec/ftpd/ftpchroot.5 | 20 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/libexec/ftpd/ftpchroot.5 b/libexec/ftpd/ftpchroot.5 index 8c8f629..ec14715 100644 --- a/libexec/ftpd/ftpchroot.5 +++ b/libexec/ftpd/ftpchroot.5 @@ -66,9 +66,16 @@ A username is specified otherwise. The optional second field describes the directory for the user or each member of the group to be locked up in using .Xr chroot 2 . +Be it omitted, the user's login directory will be used. If it is not an absolute pathname, then it will be relative to the user's login directory. -Be this field omitted, the user's login directory will be used. +If it contains the +.Qq \&/./ +seprator, +.Xr ftpd 8 +will treat its left-hand side as the name of the directory to do +.Xr chroot 2 +to, and its right-hand side to change the current directory to afterwards. .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width /etc/ftpchroot -compact .It Pa /etc/ftpchroot @@ -86,12 +93,17 @@ webuser @hostee .Ed .Pp -And this line will lock up the user +And this line will tell +.Xr ftpd 8 +to lock up the user .Qq joe in -.Pa /var/spool/ftp : +.Pa /var/spool/ftp +and then to change the current directory to +.Pa /joe , +which is relative to the session's new root: .Bd -literal -offset indent -joe /var/spool/ftp +joe /var/spool/ftp/./joe .Ed .Pp And finally the following line will lock up every user connecting |
