FTP permissions

jeucken · 01-02-2006, 08:26 AM

Hi,

I'm about to set up my FTP server.
What will be a good default permission for the files in my FTP server?

ak99505 · 01-03-2006, 05:07 PM

umask 022

that will give owner read/write and every one else read, that's pretty much what you'd want for an anonymous I believe. even if you'd need an account to log on to the server that is they way i'd go, unless you only want
to give owner and group read permissions
umask 027 will give other no permissions, group read only and user read/write i'd go with one of those

jeucken · 01-04-2006, 02:44 AM

Thanks.

I will be installing Proftp this weekend.
Or do you have any suggestions for a better FTP deamon?

ak99505 · 01-04-2006, 08:53 AM

if you're doing anonymous ftp then no I don't, I've never set one up. but if you are going to require loging then I'd stick to ssh.

Mishra100 · 01-04-2006, 08:58 AM

You know... I've never really been happy with any ftp application. Every ftp program has some kind of downfall in my eyes.

jeucken · 01-04-2006, 10:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ak99505

if you're doing anonymous ftp then no I don't, I've never set one up. but if you are going to require loging then I'd stick to ssh.

???
How can I use SSH as an FTP deamon?

jeucken · 01-04-2006, 11:37 AM

I've installed pureftp.

Where can I define the location of the FTP root.
I want this to be the same for ALL users that login. (/srv/www)
It now is /srv/ftp, but I can't seem to find where this is configured. (it's not in the pure-ftpd.conf)

ak99505 · 01-04-2006, 08:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jeucken

???
How can I use SSH as an FTP deamon?

you wouldn't be using a ssh client with the ftp service, you'd be using a client called sftp with a ssh service
sftp I believe comes with the ssh suite, so if you just set up ssh and people can get a interactive prompt then
they can also use sftp for file transfers or scp for file transfers.

ak99505 · 01-04-2006, 08:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jeucken

I've installed pureftp.

Where can I define the location of the FTP root.
I want this to be the same for ALL users that login. (/srv/www)
It now is /srv/ftp, but I can't seem to find where this is configured. (it's not in the pure-ftpd.conf)

found this on pure-ftp's website, is this what you are wanting to do
http://www.pureftpd.org/

Code:

 
Shared directories and chroot.

-> I have a directory, say /var/incoming, that I want to be shared by every
user. But I want my users to be chrooted. So /var/incoming should be visible
in 'joe' and 'john' accounts, but those are chrooted. So, how to have the
content of /var/incoming visible in these accounts?

Making a symbolic link won't work, because when you are chrooted, it means
that everything outside a base directory (your user's home directory) won't
be reachable, even though a symbolic link.

But all modern operating systems can mount local directories to several
locations. To have an exact duplicate of your /var/incoming directory
available in /home/john/incoming and /home/joe/incoming, use one of these
commands:

* Linux   : mount --bind /var/incoming /home/john/incoming
            mount --bind /var/incoming /home/joe/incoming

* Solaris : mount -F lofs /var/incoming /home/john/incoming
            mount -F lofs /var/incoming /home/joe/incoming

* BSD     : mount_null /var/incoming /home/john/incoming
            mount_null /var/incoming /home/joe/incoming

Warning: FreeBSD's mount_null is broken and causes kernel crashes with all
FreeBSD systems prior to release 4.4 .

jeucken · 01-05-2006, 10:29 AM

But I checked and tested with multiple users and all of them point to /srv/ftp.
I just want to change this to /srv/www.

ak99505 · 01-05-2006, 06:05 PM

I don't know what to tell you. I went to their website and read through the readme file, all it says is you can chroot the people to there home directory or to the servers directory I didn't see any docs on the config file though, only on command line parameters. and there was no parameter for changing its directory. I'd try reading through any docs that came with it see if it says any more than the website says.

jeucken · 01-09-2006, 06:44 AM

Well I couldn't find it myself and even a support request at the pure ftp site gave no reply.
So I installed proftpd instead and it works pretty good.

Thanks for your help anyway.