chrooted ftp on ubuntu 12.04 using vsftp

Mark

October 18, 2012 at 3:29 am

For those of you running Ubuntu 12.04, I have created a vsftpd 2.3.5 PPA that backports the allow_writeable_chroot config option from vsftpd 3 to the existing Ubuntu package. To use it:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:thefrontiergroup/vsftpd
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install vsftpd




ref: http://www.benscobie.com/fixing-500-oops-vsftpd-refusing-to-run-with-writable-root-inside-chroot/

1. add allow_writeable_chroot=YES

2. chroot_local_user=YES

regular expression (REGEX)

ref: http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_obj_regexp.asp

i found javascript regex book maybe usefull for php.

Modifiers

Modifiers are used to perform case-insensitive and global searches:

Modifier	Description
i	Perform case-insensitive matching
g	Perform a global match (find all matches rather than stopping after the first match)
m	Perform multiline matching

Brackets

Brackets are used to find a range of characters:

Expression	Description
[abc]	Find any character between the brackets
[^abc]	Find any character not between the brackets
[0-9]	Find any digit from 0 to 9
[A-Z]	Find any character from uppercase A to uppercase Z
[a-z]	Find any character from lowercase a to lowercase z
[A-z]	Find any character from uppercase A to lowercase z
[adgk]	Find any character in the given set
[^adgk]	Find any character outside the given set
(red|blue|green)	Find any of the alternatives specified

Metacharacters

Metacharacters are characters with a special meaning:

Metacharacter	Description
.	Find a single character, except newline or line terminator
\w	Find a word character
\W	Find a non-word character
\d	Find a digit
\D	Find a non-digit character
\s	Find a whitespace character
\S	Find a non-whitespace character
\b	Find a match at the beginning/end of a word
\B	Find a match not at the beginning/end of a word
\0	Find a NUL character
\n	Find a new line character
\f	Find a form feed character
\r	Find a carriage return character
\t	Find a tab character
\v	Find a vertical tab character
\xxx	Find the character specified by an octal number xxx
\xdd	Find the character specified by a hexadecimal number dd
\uxxxx	Find the Unicode character specified by a hexadecimal number xxxx

Quantifiers

Quantifier	Description
n+	Matches any string that contains at least one n
n*	Matches any string that contains zero or more occurrences of n
n?	Matches any string that contains zero or one occurrences of n
n{X}	Matches any string that contains a sequence of X n's
n{X,Y}	Matches any string that contains a sequence of X to Y n's
n{X,}	Matches any string that contains a sequence of at least X n's
n$	Matches any string with n at the end of it
^n	Matches any string with n at the beginning of it
?=n	Matches any string that is followed by a specific string n
?!n	Matches any string that is not followed by a specific string n