How to add an FTP user that doesn't have access to parent dirrectories?

Question

I want to add user called user on my ftp server, and that user will have access on just /home/user folder...And I want to he hasn't got access in back folders, home, root and that, just /home/user but I don't know every command. How can this be done?

Answer 1

Most of these commands need to be run as root by the way, so for instance instead of chmod ..., it would be sudo chmod...

This all depends whether this of restricting access to folder or allowing access to folders. This is on the chmod page, which is what makes it really useful:

Owner is the permissions on that file of the owner of the folder - usually the user that has created them - can be changed with chown.

Group is the permissions on that file of the group of the folder - can be changed with the chown or the chgrp commands.

Other is the permissions on that file of everyone who does not fall into the above two categories.

So running chmod 600 /PATH/TO/FILE will change the permissions so that only the owner can read the file, and write to it. This is useful if ristekga is the only other user, as then they cannot access it, but the owner can.

You can also do the same for folders, but by using chmod -R 600 /PATH/TO/FILE so the contents of the folder is the same as well. You should be able to run this on all the folders not owned by ristekga to stop them accessing them.

If they are owned by ristekga, running chown -R USERNAME:GROUP /PATH/TO/FOLDER (or chown USERNAME:GROUP /PATH/TO/FILE) should work - where USERNAME is the name of the new owner, and GROUP is the name of the group the folder it is to part of - but this can usually be the same as the USERNAME.