Hello guys,
once again i am in need of your ever valuable knowledge and while i know the temptation will be to tell me that this is insecure or in some way degrading to my system, please i urge you to only answer the question if you have my solution.
I wish to specify a user the ability to navigate outside of his home directory.
Now, i know of some ways to do this and i'll state what they are and why they dont work for what i am trying to achieve.
i could specify that the directive DefaultRoot ~ is deleted in the conf, but this would allow all users to migrate outside of their home.
I could specify a new home for my user, one that better accomodates where he should be, but then he still would only be navigating inside his home directory.
The bottom line is that i am attempting to have an ftp administrator, one that could have rwx permissions for all the directories i wish him to handle and furthermore this user will have a desktop enviroment to be able to log in locally if he so chooses although ftp is the primary mode of communication.
i wish to use a user i already have set up as my initial user so i dont want to create a new user or a group for my existing user, but add him to one if he has to be for the folders he needs to access...
i know it sounds like the impossible, i am but a lamen, but if any of you free-thinkers out there want to give a stab at this feel free.
PS, i DID google search AND forum search and all the solutions they presented were the 2 i listed above.
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