CentOS 6, add user to folder

Question

I need to create user with limited access to one folder only, example /home/user1.Like in cPanel and WHM.

How can i do it ?

Answer 1

For this example, I am using Vsftpd, as it is the default FTP client distributed with RedHat, however these instructions should apply to most FTP server applications.

Create a FTP user group. eg: ftpaccounts

#/usr/sbin/groupadd ftpaccounts 

Add a new user to this group, and set the default path of that user to /home/user/.

#/usr/sbin/adduser -g ftpaccounts -d /home/user/ testuser 

Set a password for the newley created user.

#passwd testuser 

Set ownership of /home/user to the testuser and ftpaccounts.

#chown testuser:ftpaccounts /home/user 

Give Read/Write access to testuser and all members in ftpaccounts

#chmod 775 /home/user 

Edit /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf file and make sure 'local_enable=YES' is uncommented.

Restart the vsftpd service.

#/etc/init.d/vsftpd restart