Ftp General Settings - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 11 - ADMINISTRATION Administration Manual

Figure 28.1 FTP Server Configuration — Start-Up

28.2 FTP General Settings

In the General Settings frame of the FTP General Settings dialog you can set the Wel-
come message which is shown after connecting to the FTP server.
If you check the Chroot Everyone option, all local users will be placed in a chroot jail
in their home directory after login. This option has security implications, especially if
the users have upload permission or shell access, so be careful enabling this option.
If you check the Verbose Logging option, all FTP requests and responses are logged.
You can limit permissions of files created by anonymous and/or authenticated users
with umask. The bits that are set in the umask identify permissions that are always to
be disabled for newly created files. Set the file creation mask for anonymous users in
Umask for Anonymous and the file creation mask for authenticated users in Umask for
Authenticated Users. The masks should be entered as octal numbers with a leading zero.
In the FTP Directories frame set the directories used for anonymous and authorized
users. By pressing Browse, you can select a directory to be used from the local filesys-
tem. The default FTP directory for anonymous users is /srv/ftp. Note that vsftpd
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