I'm running an old
Compaq ProLiant ML350 server
with 128 MB RAM
Novell Suse 10.0 (OpenSuse)

I'm not a total(!) newbie to Linux, but definitely no expert.
I have no experience with vsftp.

What's the idea? I have to set up a data area in the server where all
the consultants of my company can access their files centrally.
So, I do not want to give them home directories (well I have to) but
only access to the /dat/ subdirectory. Nowhere else on that server.

Can anyone point me to some documentation (besides the vsftp docs) that
tell me how to do this?

I have set up the server according to the install instructions in the vsftp

What I did was:
- add the users. (one for myself - ppj)
- create a new group and make them all members.
- made myself owner of the /dat/subdir

- give the group read rights to the /dat/ subdirectory.(drwxr-----)

- give the group rwx rights to the subdirectories of the /dat/ dir.
- give other people no rights at all. (drwxrwx---)

I must be doing something wrong, because when I log in as one of the
other users, then I cannot acces the /dat/ directory.
what am I overlooking?

Peter-Paul
Rijswijk, The Netherlands