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...their home directory. So user1 ftping in whill go right to his directory and not be able to go higher. My problem is adding a second user to be able to access the directory via ftp. In other words, user1 has a partner named user1a. I tried adding user1a in user1 group and not in user1 group...netiher worked. I tried adding user1a with no home directory and tried making their home directoy /home/user1 In all cases, ftp says 'cannot move to /home/user1' when trying to access with user1a. I am to the point it is time to forgo the security of chroot in vsftp to just add a second user. An...

...said setting TMPDIR=/var/tmp;export TMPDIR would fix it. My /var/tmp is not on a noexec partition so I'm good there. Setting TMPDIR however does not fix it. I've tried adding the variable in /etc/cron.daily/logrotate, I tried it after a prerotate inside the actual syslog logrotate file, netiher worked. I finally had to remount /tmp and remove the noexec. I have the stock 4.1 logrotate, I understand some later versions *may* address the TMPDIR but I hate to start straying off the stock/stable path since the main reason I am running Centos4.1 is to have a stable server platform that is ma...