[nflug] Really dumb ftp question

[Richard Hubbard]

thanks to all..

lab doesn't meet again for a couple of weeks, but i'll
try these out at home to try to figure out where we
went wrong.

(btw, i always thought vsftp meant _very simple_ !)



--- John Seth <johnseth at phoenixwing.com> wrote:

> I use, and LOVE, vsftpd.  Most distro's are starting
> to come around to 
> it, including many BSD's.  It is VERY secure, hence
> it's name: Very 
> Secure FTPd.  Instead of pasting or attaching my
> config's, grab them at:
> 
>   
>
http://www.phoenixwing.com/uploads/vsftpd-configs.tgz
> 
> Those are, with some minor changes, exact duplicates
> of what I'm running 
> now... and I've run them on an ISP's servers with
> better results than 
> any other FTPd in their situation. I use vsftpd for
> my own use now, but 
> my current company uses ProFTPd for it's virtual
> hosting abilities.
> 
> You should also make sure that /var/ftp and
> /usr/share/empty exist.  For 
> more info, check out vsftpd's website at
> http://vsftpd.beasts.org/, and 
> more specifically:
> 
> Permissions and necessary dir's/perm's:
>   
>
ftp://vsftpd.beasts.org/users/cevans/untar/vsftpd-2.0.3/INSTALL
> 
> Online vsftpd.conf man page:
>    http://vsftpd.beasts.org/vsftpd_conf.html
> 
> If nothing else works, it'd be my guess that your
> file system 
> permissions are incorrect.
> 
> BTW, my configuration locks users into their home
> dir's and runs in 
> standalone mode.  It will start with root priv's, in
> order to listen on 
> the unix port, other than that, it runs as the user,
> or as user "ftp".  
> Check out the doc's on it's security model.  I feel
> this is the most 
> secure ftpd out there... but that is my own
> opinion...
> 
> 
> hth...
> 
>     ~ Tony
> 
>   
> 
> Richard Hubbard wrote:
> > I have a student trying to configure an FTP server
> for
> > uploads. It's fedora core 4, using vsftpd.  when
> we
> > try to upload after configuring a user on the
> linux
> > box, we get an error, basically 'you don't have
> > permission' ===>"could not create file"
> >
> > Throwing security to the wind (right now the
> machine
> > is in 'impossible to hack externally' mode (xover
> > cable between ftp client and server)) we tried to
> > allow anonymous uploads, made sure the target
> > directory had the proper permissions (overkill at
> > 777).
> >
> > Still no joy.  Can anyone tell me what I am
> > forgetting? It has to be something obvious and
> stupid.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
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