How to Control Downloads to the FTP Server

1. Become superuser.

2. Add the following entries to the ftpaccess file to prevent users from retrieving files.

   noretrieve [absolute|relative] [class=classname]... [-] filename ...

   noretrieve	Keyword that is used to deny retrieval of a particular file or files
   absolute|relative	Parameter that specifies whether the root-dir directory paths are interpreted as absolute or relative to the current chroot directory
   class	Keyword that is used to specify class=<classname> of users to which noretrieve restrictions apply
   filename	Name of file the user is not permitted to retrieve

Example-Controlling Downloads to the FTP Server

noretrieve /etc/passwd

The preceding example states that all users are prevented from retrieving the /etc/passwd file.