FTP Configuration

Below steps are applicable where vsftd is not enabled yet.

Pre Requisite:
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vsftpd rpm should be installed in server.

rpm -qa | grep -i vsftpd
vsftpd-2.0.5-12.el5


Method Of Procedure
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Step 1: Create User  with password
           Ex: useradd fbftp
                 passwd fbftp

Step 2: Changing its default home directory from "/home/fbftp"
usermod -d "/var/fbftp" fbftp

Note - Its default home directory gets changed from "/home/fbftp" to "/var/fbftp"

Step 3: Create home directory path for ftp user
             mkdir -p /var/fbftp

Step 4: Change ownership of user's home directory:
            Ex: chown -R fbftp:fbftp fbftp

Step 5: Change ftp user  privileges
            /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf

Enable below param:
chroot_list_enable=YES (This is used to restrict user to that path)
chroot_list_file=/etc/vsftpd/chroot_list

Step 6: Add the user in chroot_list file.
            /etc/vsftpd/chroot_list

Note - Just add user in single new line. For example column wise as below.
fbftp
fbftp1
fbftp2

Step 7: Disable ssh login for ftp user using below command:
              usermod -s /sbin/nologin <user>
      Ex:  usermod -s /sbin/nologin fbftp

Step 8: Restart vsftpd
service vsftpd restart

Testing -
Login to ftp from any other server and try to navigate to other path (like /opt,/var,/etc)
Try to ssh to the server using fbftp as user. Login should get failed