ftp-chroot in login.conf ... doc error?
Giorgos Keramidas
keramida at ceid.upatras.gr
Sat Jun 26 23:15:41 UTC 2004
On 2004-06-26 22:02, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
> IMHO, if a small description is added it should probably be something
> like this:
>
> ftp-chroot If your ftpd(8) has been compiled with login.conf(5)
> support, then you can set this boolean option for a
> user class to tell ftpd(8) that it should use
> chroot(2) to restrict the specific class of users in
> their HOME directory after they have successfully
> authenticated.
> Does this look ok as an addition to login.conf(5)?
Well, apparently it doesn't. After reading the manpage more carefully,
I withdraw the above proposal and substitute this diff in its place:
%%
Index: login.conf.5
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/lib/libutil/login.conf.5,v
retrieving revision 1.49
diff -u -r1.49 login.conf.5
--- login.conf.5 5 May 2003 06:25:03 -0000 1.49
+++ login.conf.5 26 Jun 2004 22:34:24 -0000
@@ -183,6 +183,14 @@
value.
.It "hushlogin bool false Same as having a ~/.hushlogin file.
.It "ignorenologin bool false Login not prevented by nologin.
+.It "ftp-chroot bool false Limit ftp access with
+.Xr chroot 2
+to the
+.Ev HOME
+directory of the user.
+See
+.Xr ftpd 8
+for details.
.It "label string Default MAC policy; see
.Xr maclabel 7 .
.It "lang string Set $LANG environment variable to the specified value.
@@ -399,6 +407,7 @@
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr cap_mkdb 1 ,
.Xr login 1 ,
+.Xr chroot 2 ,
.Xr getcap 3 ,
.Xr getttyent 3 ,
.Xr login_cap 3 ,
@@ -406,4 +415,5 @@
.Xr pam 3 ,
.Xr passwd 5 ,
.Xr ttys 5 ,
+.Xr ftpd 8 ,
.Xr pam_passwdqc 8
%%
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