give one user access to another users home directory via ftp

[Ben Russo]

Chris W. Parker wrote:
...
> i've got a situation where i would like to give one user access to
> another users home directory on RH9 via vs-ftp.
...
> when they log in their root would be at
> '/home/cparker/www/sites/websitea/'. in this way they would have access
> to everything within the websitea tree but nothing else.
...
> is this possible? and if so how do i set this up or where should i start
> looking?


Yes it is possible.  A more simple approach might be to setup vsftpd so 
that all users are chrooted to their home directory, you can do this by
setting the option in /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
    	chroot_local_user=YES

Then cross mount your /home/cparker/www/sites/websitea
under that users home dir.

For example:

cd /home/userA
mkdir /home/userA/public_html
mount -o bind /home/cparker/www/sites/websitea /home/userA/public_html


-Ben.