Limit ftp users to only certain directories in Ubuntu
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There are several questions around limiting ftp users to certain directories.  However, most of them refer to vsftpd, which I don't think I have installed on my system.  I'm running Ubuntu 9.04.  How can I tell what ftp service I have installed, and then limit certain users to only the /home/ftpuser directory instead of having full access to the file system?  
I think I can add them to a separate group and give that group access to the proper directories, but then do I have to remove that groups permissions from all other directories?  It seems like there should be an easy way like setting the chroot_local_user value in the /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf file, but that doesn't exist on my system.
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