Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 18:19:51 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> To: Owen <cigam@home.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp error Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108131808460.17561-100000@ren.sasknow.com> In-Reply-To: <000a01c12450$3eb94f40$25b54d18@ok.shawcable.net>
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Owen wrote to questions@FreeBSD.ORG: > Hello, > I am using bftpd as an ftp server on the newest version of freeBSD. > I'm having trouble uploading to this server using the ftp unploader of > Dreamweaver 4. > It says "Permission Denied". I don't think this is really FTP related.. Rather, this is a question about file permissions. It would help if you told us a bit more about the semantics of the user account in question... I.e., where is the users home directory, is the user chroot'ed, and who is the owner:group of the directory? (And, why doesn't the user own his/her home directory?) > I know there is a way to give permissions to the user that I created > for the login, but I don't know how to set that. I don't want to > change the permissions of the folder, because then the folder would be > a security measure. Scenario 1: Unless you're doing something unusual, the login or ftp user should generally own their home directory. (Or at least own some public upload directory within their home directory). To accomplish this, just "chown user directory" where user is the userid in question, and directory is their home directory. Scenario 2: Note that if several users all need to share the same directory, it may be better off being owned by root (or some other suitable administrative account), but be owned by a new group, say, "staff" To accomplish this feat, add this line in /etc/group staff:*:1000:tom,dick,harry That gives "tom", "dick", and "harry" group access to any files owned by the "staff" group. Assuming you have a directory called "/home/upload", try this: chown root:staff /home/upload chmod 0770 /home/upload This gives the owner and "staff" group full read/write/search permission to the directory, but denies everyone else access. Scenario n(k+1): If this isn't what you want, you can set the directory permissions differently. Useful reading: man chown man chmod man group > Should I just change the permissions of the upload directory that I > configured, or can I edit the user I made with more extensive > permissions? You can generally do either/both... See above. > Thank you very much > Owen > -- Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> Network Administrator, Accounts SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E - Saskatoon, SK - S7H 0W2 Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-664-1161 Saskatoon Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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