VSFTPd

[Markus Schönhaber]

30.06.2010 09:04, Roland Turcan:

> I have recently installed VSFTP and created user with home directory
> in /var/www/user. User can connect fine, but I don't want that he can
> walk through upper directories and even into "/", ...
> 
> How can I deny changing directory backwards?

man vsftpd.conf
or
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/en/man5/vsftpd.conf.5.html

Look for
chroot_list_enable
and
chroot_local_user

Setting (at least one of) those should achieve what you want.

-- 
Regards
  mks