[nflug] Really dumb ftp question

[Richard Hubbard]

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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