Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 21:54:19 +0200 (CEST) From: "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de> To: <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: ProFTP / FBSD 4.4 couriosity Message-ID: <20011003214537.O35721-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>
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Dear Sirs. After recommendation to drop wu-ftp and to install proFTP due to security issues, I installed on our systems the proFTP server from the FreeBSD ports. Our actual OS is FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE on all systems. Because many of our users haven't already switched yet to scp, we need a simple ftp server for the time of migration. Now I run into some serious problems with proFTP. The machine hosting the proFTP server mounts the user's home directories via NFS and the FTP server is configured to grant valid users within our LAN login. That works fine, but each user on the NFS filesystem __must__ have the x-bit set in world-access (chmod 711) - otherwise the proFTP server blocks service with the error that the ftp service is not valid and the log file reports an error while chrooting to the specific user's home directory. This phenomenon occurs __not__ on local users, so I suspect NFS to be some kind of 'problematic' to proFTP. Users UID and GID are FreeBSD specific, means the users GID is identical to the users UID. Local users have chmod 700 and ftp'ing to these accounts works well, but not those on NFS filesystems having set chmod 700, they must have set their permissions to chmod 711 ... Can anybody help or confirm this strange behaviour? Thanks. Oliver -- MfG O. Hartmann ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de ---------------------------------------------------------------- IT-Administration des Institutes fuer Physik der Atmosphaere (IPA) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz Becherweg 21 55099 Mainz Tel: +496131/3924662 (Maschinenraum) Tel: +496131/3924144 FAX: +496131/3923532 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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