locking an SFTP user into only one directory.

[keith smith]

Hi I'm using CentOS 6.5 and we use the users home dir + "public_html" as the docroot for our websites like this:

/home/user_name/public_html

We are using SSH for SFTP.  Each host has only one SFTP user.

What I need to do is add a directory, lets call it uploads like this:  


/home/user_name/public_html/uploads 


Any content in uploads must be accessible to Apache so it can be displayed.

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.

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.

I hope this makes sense.  


Any suggestions?


Thanks in advance!!
  

Keith
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