41.7. Setting Up Guest Users
A guest FTP user is a real UNIX user who is limited by WU-FTPD to a certain directory, just as anonymous clients are restricted. They still have full privileges within that directory, though, including the rights to upload files, rename, and chmod files. Limiting a user to guest access can be useful if you want to prevent him from seeing parts of your filesystem outside his home directory or some parent directory, like /home.
Every user who is designated as a guest by the FTP server configuration can have a different root directory, or some can be the same. The chosen root directories, however, must be set up in the same way as the anonymous FTP root is—with bin, lib, and etc subdirectories containing all the programs ...
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