Virtual hosts user management

You don't mention your distro but here is a link from the library regarding debian and ubuntu.

http://library.linode.com/security/sftp-jails

I just recently set up a jailed sftp for our web designer to have access to "his" content.

It isn't too too hard to set up.

Thanks Musfuut!

That looks like it should do the trick.

I've been looking on the library but I think I was missing a…search criteria.

regards,

goliatone

Hehe don't worry about it! I find myself lost at the library too sometimes. :)

Good luck!

Okis,

Now, the way I read this is that I am creating a user and giving access to the user through sftp to that users home directory and that's it.

The thing is that I want my user to be able to manage the files inside the public_html of a domain, let's say:

/srv/www/my-domain.com/public_html/*

I'm not sure this accomplishes the same thing.

Yep, basically you create a new user, if you don't want them to be able to log in to the shell edit their line in /etc/passwd and change their /bin/bash to /bin/false

Then have your directory

/srv/www/my-domain.com/public_html/*

you make sure root owns srv, www, and my-domain.com

The user needs to own public_html and the files inside of it

then edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config per the instructions

set their chroot directory to /srv/www/my-domain.com/

When they log in they will be resticted to my-domain.com and whatever folders are inside of it, including public_html.

Hope this helps, write back if you have any more questions. :)

ok, i see what you mean.

I also just ended up on this thread, which is quite explanatory as well.

One question. I need to have some directories (cache, logs) to be owned by the www-data user so my app can write to them. So, if I change the ownership of my-domain.com then I need to later reassign those back to the www-data user, right?