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Old 11th November 2008
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Default FTP users sharing same home directory

I've been thinking about how to setup my VSFTP server the way I want it. I want several users being able to login (not anonymously) with username and password. All users should be "chrooted" to the same directory and confined there.

I was thinking of setups using all kinds of tricks, like virtual users or chrooting everybody to a predefined directory. But, when I think about it, can't I just add users with adduser, giving them the same home dir and no shell (-s nologin)? Are there any problems with this? Will they be able to login at all if I don't set a shell?

Should I be using the -d flag to specify the (shared) home directory? I'm not really sure I understand the semantics in the man page.

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But, when I think about it, can't I just add users with adduser, giving them the same home dir and no shell (-s nologin)?
why not? It should work

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Will they be able to login at all if I don't set a shell?
just set /usr/sbin/nologin for shell and ftp access will work at all

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I have a similar setup but with smb instead of ftp and it works great. Just make sure to set the appropriate umask.
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I have a similar setup but with smb instead of ftp and it works great. Just make sure to set the appropriate umask.
Ok. The same directory will actually be a smb share aswell. I've chosen a somewhat risky samba-setup though, allowing any user from within the LAN to access it without using a username and password. Since I'm the only user in that network I thought it would be fine anyway.

I'll have to read up on umask. I never seem to really get it :-)

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phreud, for samba, you can set your umask directly in your config file. I would have pasted it here for you but the mainboard of that machine just crashed and burned this morning. I'll paste it as soon as the box is repaired.

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I have a similar setup but with smb instead of ftp and it works great. Just make sure to set the appropriate umask.
Have you gotten around the fact that whenever you add a user to the same home dir, that dir gets chown to the new user? I end up having to chown the home dir every time I've added a new user.

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My users do not have access to their own home. They have access via samba to a "shared folder" instead. My users do not connect via ssh and do not need their own files. It's a workgroup only machine.
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