Re: ProFTPd; how to set up write access for home dirs

[aphro <nate@firetrail.com>]

give me your /etc/proftpd.conf

i'd advise against usin proftpd btw its still not prooven to be secure
yet.  i use the openbsd ftpd ported to linux v0.2.2

http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/madore/programs/#prog_ftpd-BSD

nate

----------------------------------------[mailto:aphro@aphroland.org ]--
   Vice President Network Operations       http://www.firetrail.com/
  Firetrail Internet Services Limited      http://www.aphroland.org/
       Everett, WA 425-348-7336            http://www.linuxpowered.net/
            Powered By:                    http://comedy.aphroland.org/
    Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP            http://yahoo.aphroland.org/
-----------------------------------------[mailto:aphro@netquest.net ]--
2:53pm up 74 days, 2:20, 1 user, load average: 1.75, 1.58, 1.54

On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Kent West wrote:

> aphro wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Kent West wrote:
> > 
> > > I checked the docs and the archives, but I'm not understanding
> > > what I need to do.
> > >
> > > I've got proftpd running, and I can ftp into my box as both
> > > anonymous and a normal user. As each I can "get" files, put I
> > > can't "put" files. For teh anonymous user, that's great. But how
> > > do I specify that a normal user can "put" to his own home
> > > directory?
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > >
> > 
> > proftpd, like most ftpds use filesystem permissions when dealing with
> > normal users, proftpd has the option to deny overwrites, which i
> > (think?) is default(see /etc/proftpd.conf)  for the anonymous user
> > permissions it is treated as the user  'ftp' in most cases, and the root
> > directory for anonymous users is ftp's home directory.
> > 
> > nate
> > 
> > ----------------------------------------[mailto:aphro@aphroland.org ]--
> >    Vice President Network Operations       http://www.firetrail.com/
> >   Firetrail Internet Services Limited      http://www.aphroland.org/
> >        Everett, WA 425-348-7336            http://www.linuxpowered.net/
> >             Powered By:                    http://comedy.aphroland.org/
> >     Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP            http://yahoo.aphroland.org/
> > -----------------------------------------[mailto:aphro@netquest.net ]--
> 
> When I ftp in, I use a normal user account, and I can see that
> normal user's directory, but I still can't write to it, even
> though I can write to it if I'm telnetted (or locally logged) in.
> So it's something specific to proftpd, not filesystem
> permissions.
> 
> Thanks anyway.
>