Re: [Q] How to create a FTP only account.. for...

[System Account <listinfo@timberwolf.provision.net>]

On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:

> Rob,
> 
> I have the same problem.  Could you email me any answers that you get by
> personal email?  Would greatly appreciate it.  I am on the mailing
> list.  So I would get to see the emails that come to the mailing list.
> 
> Sudhakar

Hello Sudhakar, fellow debianers, :)

	First thanx to everyone who helped me on this. The ftp web
accounts are all working great now. 

There really wasn't alot that really had to be done but this is exactly
what how i have it setup. You may wish to place things else where

	cd /
	mkdir webftp

    drwxr-sr-x   7 root     root         1024 Jun 29 22:58 webftp

Now copy the /home/ftp/bin lib and etc dir to /webftp

	cp -ap /home/ftp/bin /webftp
	cp -ap /home/ftp/lib /webftp
	cp -ap /home/ftp/etc /webftp
  I also copied and changed the welcome.msg aswell.

I added another directory here where the user accounts go /webftp/web.
Change the group of the web dir to webusers

	cd /webftp
	mkdir web

    drwxr-xr-x   4 root     webusers     1024 Jun 29 21:48 web

Then add a group to /etc/group and place the users in that group. I'll use
"webusers" as the group and "user1" and "user2" as the users.	

	webusers:*:109:user1,user2

And add this line to your /etc/ftpd/ftpaccess file. This allows all users
in the group "webusers" to ftp in and saves you from having to add a
guestgroup for each user.

	guestgroup      webusers 

Now just add your users and edit the /etc/passwd file (always using
caution when doing this. I'd recommend makeing a passwd.bak just in case)
You need to change the users home path to:

	user1:passwd:5000:5000:Web User,,,,:/webftp/./web/user1:/bin/true
	user2:passwd:5001:5001:Web User,,,,:/webftp/./web/user2:/bin/true 

*Make sure you add /bin/true to /etc/shells

Remember to move the users home directory to /webftp/web with the perms

	drwxr-xr-x   2 user1   user1       1024 Jun 29 23:05 user1 
	drwxr-xr-x   2 user2   user2       1024 Jun 29 23:05 user2

With these permissions all the users can cd to the other accounts and see
what they have. I really don't see this as a problem as everything there
will be accessable via the web anyways. change the permissions as you see
fit.

Now they can ftp in and put stuff in thier own directories (but not
others). I made the /webftp/web dir for the users home dirs and added a
index.html to /webftp/web to include a listing of all the system
users. 

One optional thing i did was to make a link:

	ln -s /webftp/web /home/www-data/web
This was created so none of these users needed a public_html file. they
just need to put thier files in thier home directories. The url would then
be http://www.your.site/web/user1. No ~ is needed before user1.

Hope this helps you out. 

-Rob


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