locking an SFTP user into only one directory.

[keith smith]

Thank you so much!!



 
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Keith Smith
On Wednesday, April 30, 2014 4:20 PM, Amit Nepal <amit at amitnepal.com> wrote:
 
A while back, I had done this to restrict to a particular directory , but it may not be ideal for you as you already have some parent directories, but you can give a try :

http://www.amitnepal.com/chrooting-users-with-sftp/

Or ,  you may be able to mount that directory somewhere else and
      give access like this :
http://www.amitnepal.com/ftp-access-to-files-outside-base-directory/

Just look at this part : 

mkdir /home/username/extraaccess
mount --bind /folder/to/grant/access/ /home/username/extraaccess
Thanks

Amit K Nepal
Chief Information Officer 
(RHCE, CCENT, C|EH, C|HFI, GIAC ISO 27000 Specialist)
omNovia Technologies Inc. 
On 4/30/2014 3:54 PM, keith smith wrote:


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>Hi I'm using CentOS 6.5 and we use the users home dir + "public_html" as the docroot for our websites like this:
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>We are using SSH for SFTP.  Each host has only one SFTP user.
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>What I need to do is add a directory, lets call it uploads like this:  
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>/home/user_name/public_html/uploads 
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>Any content in uploads must be accessible to Apache so it can be displayed.
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>And I would like to add a user that can only access 
>/home/user_name/public_html/uploads and would be able to add/edit/remove any files in just the uploads directory.
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>I thought of a link, however that did not work.  I created a user uploads which created a home dir /home/uploads and I tried to link that to /home/user_name/public_html/ which created 
>/home/user_name/public_html/uploads .  This did not work.
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>I hope this makes sense.  
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>Any suggestions?
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>Thanks in advance!!
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>Keith
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