FTP Home directory

[chrisw]

Hi guys,

I'm fairly new to FreeNAS so apologies if the answer is obvious!

I have set up a volume in FreeNAS and I want to be able to FTP into that volume. The volume I've set up is /mnt/data. I have set up the FTP service to allow local user login, path is set to /mnt/data and chroot is ticked. I then attempted to setup a user with the home directory as /mnt/data, however when I add the new user, the home directory changes from /mnt/home to /mnt/home/chris

How can I set it up so that the home directory is /mnt/data/ and not /mnt/data/chris

Cheers
Chris

 

[chrisw]

Any ideas anyone?

 

[dlavigne]

You should be able to browse to the directory you want in the user's screen.

 

[danb35]

You should be able to browse to the directory you want in the user's screen.

You can--but FreeNAS then appends the username to the chosen directory. See https://bugs.freenas.org/issues/4789.

 

[dlavigne]

By default it does, but if you go in and change it back to what you want it should stick.

 

[danb35]

Negative, at least on 9.2.1.8. When I remove the username from the end of the directory and click save, there's no change--next time I look at the user in the web GUI, the username is again appended to the entered directory, and when I ssh to the server as that user, I'm in the /username/ directory.

 

[dlavigne]

Looking closer at that bug, it looks like it is fixed for 9.3 but not backported to 9.2.1.x.

 

[sremick]

I actually just ran into this the other day. Finally gave up, created a directory the same as my user name so I could at least log in, then I navigate to where I really want to go. I can live with the clutter until 9.3 I suppose.