File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
FTP services run courtesy of the ftpd daemon. It allows the machine’s users to remotely access the filesystem, so that they can browse directory listings and transfer files to and from the machine. Normally, it obeys the filesystem permissions just as a login shell does. However, if you would like to restrict FTP users’ access to their respective home directories, simply add the users’ names, one per line, to a file named ftpchroot and, as root, save it in /etc.
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