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Re: How do I force an FTP user to '/home/ftpdir'?

I was thinking that I might need to modify the FTP exit programs I have in place. The exit programs access a table which specifies what FTP commands the user profile can and can't do (mkdir, cd, del, etc). I guess I could add a flag to their entry in the table which says to position them to a homedir.

But if I allow them access to the 'chdir' command, how would I keep them from accessing a 'higher-level' directory? Group profiles, with appropriate access rights to objects, libraries and folders? Or could I somehow do that with an exit program?

Tom

Gary Monnier said the following on 2/18/2005 10:54 AM: 
They will need to use an exit program on one of two FTP signon exit
points (exit point QIBM_QTMF_SVR_LOGON format TCPL0200 or format
TCPL0300).  They will allow you to return an initial home directory.

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Customer wants to setup a generic FTP account for their tech support folks in the field. Along with that account, they have an IFS directory

called '/home/software' which has the software that they need to install

at various customer sites.

When they login via FTP using that account, the tech folks need to be positioned directly in that support directory, and to have access to nothing else other than that directory (or its subdirectories). No going to a higher-level directory, no deleting files in that directory (or sub-directory), no running of AS400 commands.

The 'no-deletes' and 'no-commands' requirement I can handle with FTP exit programs, but how do I handle the directory requirements?

Tom



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