From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 24 22:56:59 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF61837B401 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 22:56:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hnlmail2.hawaii.rr.com (hnlmail2.hawaii.rr.com [24.25.227.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1005543F75 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 2003 22:56:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@mtsolidarity.com) Received: from mtsolidarity.com ([204.210.96.104]) by hnlmail2.hawaii.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 19:56:55 -1000 Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 19:56:57 -1000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) To: From: Mike Solis In-Reply-To: <1908.64.7.7.234.1051248779.squirrel@mail.romero3000.com> Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File Permissions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 05:57:00 -0000 I'm pretty new to running my own server. I've been using a hosting company for years and thought it's about time to learn. I'm used to taking the ftp hostname, username and login they give and going for it. Why is it a bad idea to ftp directly to your root folder. I'm not doubting you, I just like to know why I do things. I've never used chrooted ftp but I'll look into it. I want to do things the right way. Thanks for the tip on apache. I'll stick with the production version. On Thursday, April 24, 2003, at 07:32 PM, wrote: > Any particular reason you are running apache2???? Unless you are using > a > feature not found on the production release of apache you should > probably > stay away from apache2. Anyways, its not a particularly good idea to be > ftp'ing directly to your root folder to begin with. try chrooted ftp. > its > a little extra work but may be worth it in the end. > >> I'm using FreeBSD 4.7 as a web server running Apache2. I'm trying to >> ftp into my server root folder but keep getting told I don't have >> permission. I am included in group wheel so thought I would have the >> correct permissions. What am I missing? >> >> Mahalo, >> >> Mike >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > >