Re: VSFTP configuration

[Michael Gargiullo <mgargiullo warpdrive net>]

On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 14:20, Bret Hughes wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 12:42, Mark Haney wrote:
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> > I'm having some trouble with getting vsftp configured for my setup. 
> > I hope it's possible to set it up without having to re-do everything.
> >  Here's the deal, we are finaly moving from IIS to Apache for our web
> > server.  That's a good thing.  Our IIS server was hacked some weeks
> > ago and hasn't been the same since.  Now, I want to be able to setup
> > ftp access for our teachers and staff who publish their webpages
> > (some with FrontPage, others with Dreamweaver) but I haven't been
> > able to figure out how to get vsftp to just default to a specific
> > directory (ie the location of our webpages).  Is this even possible? 
> > Or should I look for another ftp daemon that does this?  Hope anyone
> > has any ideas.
> > 
> 
> Mark -
> 
 Create linux users then set their home directory to the web directory.

	usermod -d /var/www/html <username>

  I'd create a group (ie  teachers), then assign the users to that group
as well.  

	groupadd teachers
	usermod -G teachers <username>

Then chown apache:teachers * in you r web directory.  Don't forget chmod
664 * in the web directory to allow apache and teachers to write to the
dir.

That should do it.  You may have to change the default permissions in
vsftp.conf though.

-Mike


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Michael Gargiullo <mgargiullo warpdrive net>
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