<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Thank you so much!!<br><br><div><span></span></div><div> </div><div>------------------------<br>Keith Smith</div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Wednesday, April 30, 2014 4:20 PM, Amit Nepal <amit@amitnepal.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv0844989791"><div>
<div class="yiv0844989791moz-cite-prefix">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 :<br clear="none">
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<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv0844989791moz-txt-link-freetext" target="_blank" href="http://www.amitnepal.com/chrooting-users-with-sftp/">http://www.amitnepal.com/chrooting-users-with-sftp/</a><br clear="none">
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Or , you may be able to mount that directory somewhere else and
give access like this :<br clear="none">
<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv0844989791moz-txt-link-freetext" target="_blank" href="http://www.amitnepal.com/ftp-access-to-files-outside-base-directory/">http://www.amitnepal.com/ftp-access-to-files-outside-base-directory/</a><br clear="none">
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Just look at this part : <br clear="none">
<div><code>mkdir /home/username/extraaccess</code></div>
<div><code>mount --bind /folder/to/grant/access/
/home/username/extraaccess</code></div>
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Thanks<br clear="none">
<div class="yiv0844989791moz-signature"><b>Amit K Nepal<br clear="none">
Chief Information Officer
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(RHCE, CCENT, C|EH, C|HFI, GIAC ISO 27000 Specialist)<br clear="none">
omNovia Technologies Inc.
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On 4/30/2014 3:54 PM, keith smith wrote:<br clear="none">
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<div class="yiv0844989791" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br style="" clear="none">
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<div class="yiv0844989791" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span class="yiv0844989791" style="">Hi I'm using CentOS
6.5 and we use the users home dir + "public_html" as the
docroot for our websites like this:</span></div>
<div class="yiv0844989791" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br class="yiv0844989791" style="" clear="none">
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<div class="yiv0844989791" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span class="yiv0844989791" style="">/home/user_name/public_html</span></div>
<div class="yiv0844989791" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br class="yiv0844989791" style="" clear="none">
<span class="yiv0844989791" style=""></span></div>
<div class="yiv0844989791" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span class="yiv0844989791" style="">We are using SSH for
SFTP. Each host has only one SFTP user.</span></div>
<div class="yiv0844989791" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br class="yiv0844989791" style="" clear="none">
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<div class="yiv0844989791" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span class="yiv0844989791" style="">What I need to do is
add a directory, lets call it uploads like this: </span><br class="yiv0844989791" style="" clear="none">
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<div class="yiv0844989791" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span class="yiv0844989791" style=""><br class="yiv0844989791" style="" clear="none">
</span></div>
<div class="yiv0844989791" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span class="yiv0844989791" style="">/home/user_name/public_html/uploads
<br class="yiv0844989791" style="" clear="none">
</span></div>
<div class="yiv0844989791" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br class="yiv0844989791" style="" clear="none">
<span class="yiv0844989791" style=""></span></div>
<div class="yiv0844989791" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span class="yiv0844989791" style="">Any content in
uploads must be accessible to Apache so it can be displayed.</span></div>
<div class="yiv0844989791" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br class="yiv0844989791" style="" clear="none">
<span class="yiv0844989791" style=""></span></div>
<div class="yiv0844989791" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span class="yiv0844989791" style="">And I would like to
add a user that can only access </span><br class="yiv0844989791" style="" clear="none">
<span class="yiv0844989791" style="">/home/user_name/public_html/uploads
and would be able to add/edit/remove any files in just the
uploads directory.</span></div>
<div class="yiv0844989791" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br class="yiv0844989791" style="" clear="none">
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<div class="yiv0844989791" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span class="yiv0844989791" style="">I thought of a link,
however that did not work.</span><span class="yiv0844989791" style=""> 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 </span><br class="yiv0844989791" style="" clear="none">
<span class="yiv0844989791" style="">/home/user_name/public_html/uploads .
This did not work.</span></div>
<div class="yiv0844989791" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br clear="none">
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<div class="yiv0844989791" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">I hope this makes sense. <br clear="none">
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<div class="yiv0844989791" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br clear="none">
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<div class="yiv0844989791" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span class="yiv0844989791" style="">Any suggestions?<br clear="none">
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<div class="yiv0844989791" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br class="yiv0844989791" style="" clear="none">
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<div class="yiv0844989791" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span class="yiv0844989791" style=""></span><span class="yiv0844989791" style="">Thanks in advance!!</span></div>
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