Secure File Transfer & Jailed user accounts

[Bryan.ONeal at asu.edu]

Quoting Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>:

> I thought that I had read if you put /./home/user as the users home
> directory in /etc/passwd that it would chroot them to that directory
> only. Don't recall where I read that info and it may not be at all
> accurate.
> 
> Most ftp programs should have a way to lock them into their home
> directory though - I don't do much ftp these days.
> 
> Craig
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------

Would have been great if it worked but, no.
I created a new user with a home dir like you mentioned and it did nothing other
then create a normal user 

#  useradd -d /./home/test2 testme
#  passwd testme
Changing password for user testme.
New UNIX password: 
BAD PASSWORD: it is based on a dictionary word
Retype new UNIX password: 
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.