Changing FTP Root?
- Thread starter jackdahi
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gatorparrots
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There's nothing in /etc or /etc/xinetd.d/ that pertains to setting the site root for the default ftp server in OS X 10.2.
Each user that logs in via ftp will default to their home directory. You could relocate their home directory to a different volume (/Volumes/volumename/ftpuser) or have a shared root on a different drive that you point your ftp users to (i.e. set all of your ftp users' home directory to /Volumes/volumename/newftproot).
If you want to find out more about the ftp server possibilites, you'll have to look on the web for documentation about lukemftpd, the new ftp daemon in OS X 10.2.x. The man pages will not tell you how to do what you ask, as they are outdated (referring to OS X 10.1.x's ftpd instead).
I suggest scrapping lukemftpd altogether and replacing it with pureftpd or proftpd, if you are after any advanced features such as chroot, throttling, quotas, etc.
Each user that logs in via ftp will default to their home directory. You could relocate their home directory to a different volume (/Volumes/volumename/ftpuser) or have a shared root on a different drive that you point your ftp users to (i.e. set all of your ftp users' home directory to /Volumes/volumename/newftproot).
If you want to find out more about the ftp server possibilites, you'll have to look on the web for documentation about lukemftpd, the new ftp daemon in OS X 10.2.x. The man pages will not tell you how to do what you ask, as they are outdated (referring to OS X 10.1.x's ftpd instead).
I suggest scrapping lukemftpd altogether and replacing it with pureftpd or proftpd, if you are after any advanced features such as chroot, throttling, quotas, etc.