pure-ftpd help

arachn1d · Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2004 7:31 pm Post subject: pure-ftpd help

Hello, I set it up and I can connect fine. Just one question...

How can I have it so that a user has permissions to a directory?

in this case
/var/www/localhost/htdocs/webfolder/
this is so i can update the website.
Right now its saying permission denied but I can roam freely around the directories, any help?

Deathwing00 · Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2004 8:02 pm Post subject:

Moved from Portage & Programming.

the_sphynx · Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2004 8:22 pm Post subject:

How are you doing authentication (e.g. passwd, mysql, etc.)? Also what are the permissions on that direcory for the user that you are trying to log in as?
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arachn1d · Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2004 8:36 pm Post subject:

auth is password

the permissions is i guess normal ones created on the system setup ?

the_sphynx · Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2004 6:24 pm Post subject:

Sorry about not getting back to you..
What I would first do is make sure that /var/www/localhost/htdocs/webfolder has the correct permisssions to have files written there by the user that you want to allow FTP access.
Then (for security best practices) create a user with that as their home directory and a false shell (/dev/null).
Pure-FTP will recognize that that is the home dir and will place them there by default. That should work.
There is another alternative, although it may be a little trickier, and that is to create a symbolic link to /var/www/localhost/htdocs/webfolder in the typical home dir. of the user (i.e. /home/user). The trick is getting Pure-FTP to allow symbolic links in a dir to be followed. I would suggest going to Pure-FTP's site and check out the docs.
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