Restrict users to their home directory in VSFTP

Sometimes you may want to restrict users to their home directory while doing FTP. You can achieve this in VSFTP with the

following steps.

1. Open the VSFTPD configuration file “/etc/vsftpd.conf” . Uncomment the following lines.

chroot_local_user=YES

chroot_list_file=/etc/vsftpd.chroot_list

2. Create the file “/etc/vsftpd.chroot_list” and place the user names (one per line) that you want to restrict in that file.

3. Restart VSFTPD to take effect.

# /etc/init.d/vsftpd restart

After this users listed in the file “/etc/vsftpd.chroot_list” will be locked up in their home directory

Sometimes you may want to restrict users to their home directory while doing FTP. You can achieve this in VSFTP with the

following steps.

1. Open the VSFTPD configuration file “/etc/vsftpd.conf” . Uncomment the following lines.

chroot_local_user=YES

chroot_list_file=/etc/vsftpd.chroot_list

2. Create the file “/etc/vsftpd.chroot_list” and place the user names (one per line) that you want to restrict in that file.

3. Restart VSFTPD to take effect.

/etc/init.d/vsftpd restart

After this users listed in the file “/etc/vsftpd.chroot_list” will be locked up in their home directory