Any proftpd gurus around?

Tsuki · Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 1:10 pm Post subject: Any proftpd gurus around?

I've been trying to set up an FTP server using proftpd, without much success. According to the sample config files, I think the following should give me what I want - anonymous read access to /mnt/documents and the ability to log in as "upload" to get read/write access to /home/tsuki/incoming. However, whatever I try, I just get a blank directory.

adaptr · Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 1:28 pm Post subject:

You can only have one distinct anonymous directory.
When people connect as "upload" it's hardly anonyous anymore, is it ?
Scrap the anonymous part and make it a normal directory - that should work.

But delete the ftp useralias for the second dir, since you can't have that, can you ?

Re-think in order here ;-)

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Tsuki · Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 1:57 pm Post subject:

I've tried changing the second set of Anonymous tags to Directory, and removed the User, Group and UserAlias lines (it wouldn't let me nest User and Group inside Directory).

Anonymous and "ftp" just get a blank directory, "upload" can now see the contents of /home/tsuki/incoming - and everything else on the system, although ~/incoming is the only place they can write to.

Am I missing something obvious here? I guess I just haven't properly understood how the proftpd config file syntax works yet...

I forgot to mention last time, user "ftp" has a home directory of "/mnt/documents" and user "upload" has a home directory of "/home/tsuki/incoming". /home/tsuki/incoming has r/w/x access for everyone, /mnt/documents and all its contents have read access for the "ftp" user.