(fedora) vsftp and dodgy permissions

S.W. Bobcat swbobcat at hotmail.com
Wed Jun 14 09:13:33 UTC 2006


Just for fun install FC4. FC5 seems a bit starnge. The 2.6.16 kernel for 
both FC4 but the default kernel in FC5  seems to have problems with some 
software aned hardware.

Bob



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>syrus at doomedyouth.org wrote at 13-JUN-2006 20:24:05.59
>
> >I'm setting up a new server at the moment and I'm trying to get FTP 
>working so I
> > don't have to SSH as much (I use webdrive in Windows) but I've come 
>across a st
> >range problem.
> >
> >Now, before anyone starts a-rantin' I know I shouldn't be using root for 
>this st
> >uff anyway, but I'm just doing it while I get set up.
> >
> >Anyway, the problem is;
> >
> >When I ssh I can see all files and folders with root.
> >When I ftp I can't see certain folders. /var/ and /etc/httpd/ 
>specifically.
> >'ve ssh'd into both my servers to check permissions and they're both the 
>same f
> >or those directories and yet one works while the other doesn't. Anyone 
>know of a
> >n explanation?
> >
> >The old server, which works perfectly, is running Fedora Core 2 pretty 
>much out
> >of the box.
> >The new server, which doesn't work properly, is running Fedora Core 5 out 
>of the
> > box.
> >
> >The conf files are exactly the same between the servers. It's vsftpd that 
>I'm ru
> >nning on both, so essentially it should be the same.
> >
> >Any ideas why the ssh and ftp would behave differently accessing files 
>with the
> >same username and password?
>
>On my FC5 machines I noticed that I can only access files on the
>root-partition ( / ). Files located on any other partition seem to be
>unaccessible.
>
>                         Jouk
>
>
>
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