[nflug] Really dumb ftp question

[Josh Johnson]

in your /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf file (or your distros equivalent) you need:

write_enable=YES

-josh


----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Hubbard" <rhubby at yahoo.com>
To: nflug at nflug.org
Subject: Re: [nflug] Really dumb ftp question
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 09:20:30 -0800 (PST)

> 
> the directory is world writeable.  it looks like the
> vsftpd daemon is being run by root (just the sound of
> that makes me cringe. I'm glad this is only a
> classroom exercise and not a real ftp server).
> there is a user called ftp, which has no shell, but I
> think (just a guess) that this is the user you become
> when you log in as anonymous (can't confirm that due
> to the writing issue)
> 
> when i log in as a normal user (to try to ftp to their
> own directory), their login shell is bash. (default
> fedora insall)
> 
> /var/log/vsftpd.log only shows the login, doesn't show
> any messages regarding the upload attempt.
> 
> could there be a setting in the vsftpd.conf file,
> which is not in the sample file, which overall
> prevents all uploads?
> 
> --- Roelant Ossewaarde <rao3 at buffalo.edu> wrote:
> 
> > Does this FTP-server run under user ftp? If so, are
> > you sure that  that user actually can chdir and write to that
> > directory? (check with  su)
> >
> > Also, could the user that is trying to log in have a
> > shell that is  not listed in /etc/shells? Many FTP-servers only
> > allow people to log  in with a valid shell that is listed there.
> >
> > What is the output of /var/log/ftpd or
> > /var/log/messages?
> >
> --snip
> 
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