Carlwill

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I need help getting my FTP server up & running on Fedora 4.
I am able to point to my FTP server per the domain: ftp://fldrift.homelinux.org/

When I access the server, it does not prompt for a login name and or allow me to upload any files to it. All I can see is a "pub" folder. My machine only has 3 users:

- root
- carlos (my main user account)
- fldrift ( the main login I want everyone to use)

I want that FTP login to be able to upload and download files from the FTP server and I am not sure how I can go about setting up these permissions.

I would also like my main user account (carlos) to have full controll of the FTP server (admin like privlages).

Can someone please help me.

david_ross

What ftp server are you using?

Carlwill

I don't know what version of FTP software it is. I think it is vsftpd as that is the command I give to start the service in Fedora.

Sharaz

you will not be promted if you allow anonymous login. you need to either send your logon info along with your original connection attempt, or disable anonymous logins in the /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf file.

Carlwill

I am not wanting or seeing a anonymous login via the server. I just am unable to access any portion of the FTP server.

I only have 3 user accounts on my Fedora 4 machine.

- root
- carlos
- fldrift

I want carlos to have full admin control of the FTP server & I would like fldrift to be able to upload to the server but not make any changes.

Right now the way the server is, nobody can access the server. I get a login prompt but am not able to connect successfully.

Rinish

You have loged in as anonymous! This is why you see pub folder.
This pub folder actually sits at /var/ftp/pub

If you want your users to login , you may have to enable local logins
Please post your /etc/vsftpd/vsftp.conf file so that it would be easy for us to understand what took you to /var/ftp/pub

/Rinish (rinishriju)

Carlwill

# Example config file /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
#
# The default compiled in settings are fairly paranoid. This sample file
# loosens things up a bit, to make the ftp daemon more usable.
# Please see vsftpd.conf.5 for all compiled in defaults.
#
# READ THIS: This example file is NOT an exhaustive list of vsftpd options.
# Please read the vsftpd.conf.5 manual page to get a full idea of vsftpd's
# capabilities.
#
# Allow anonymous FTP? (Beware - allowed by default if you comment this out).
anonymous_enable=YES
#
# Uncomment this to allow local users to log in.
local_enable=YES
#
# Uncomment this to enable any form of FTP write command.
write_enable=YES
#
# Default umask for local users is 077. You may wish to change this to 022,
# if your users expect that (022 is used by most other ftpd's)
local_umask=022
#
# Uncomment this to allow the anonymous FTP user to upload files. This only
# has an effect if the above global write enable is activated. Also, you will
# obviously need to create a directory writable by the FTP user.
#anon_upload_enable=YES
#
# Uncomment this if you want the anonymous FTP user to be able to create
# new directories.
#anon_mkdir_write_enable=YES
#
# Activate directory messages - messages given to remote users when they
# go into a certain directory.
dirmessage_enable=YES
#
# Activate logging of uploads/downloads.
xferlog_enable=YES
#
# Make sure PORT transfer connections originate from port 20 (ftp-data).
connect_from_port_20=YES
#
# If you want, you can arrange for uploaded anonymous files to be owned by
# a different user. Note! Using "root" for uploaded files is not
# recommended!
#chown_uploads=YES
#chown_username=whoever
#
# You may override where the log file goes if you like. The default is shown
# below.
#xferlog_file=/var/log/vsftpd.log
#
# If you want, you can have your log file in standard ftpd xferlog format
xferlog_std_format=YES
#
# You may change the default value for timing out an idle session.
#idle_session_timeout=600
#
# You may change the default value for timing out a data connection.
#data_connection_timeout=120
#
# It is recommended that you define on your system a unique user which the
# ftp server can use as a totally isolated and unprivileged user.
#nopriv_user=ftpsecure
#
# Enable this and the server will recognise asynchronous ABOR requests. Not
# recommended for security (the code is non-trivial). Not enabling it,
# however, may confuse older FTP clients.
#async_abor_enable=YES
#
# By default the server will pretend to allow ASCII mode but in fact ignore
# the request. Turn on the below options to have the server actually do ASCII
# mangling on files when in ASCII mode.
# Beware that turning on ascii_download_enable enables malicious remote parties
# to consume your I/O resources, by issuing the command "SIZE /big/file" in
# ASCII mode.
# These ASCII options are split into upload and download because you may wish
# to enable ASCII uploads (to prevent uploaded scripts etc. from breaking),
# without the DoS risk of SIZE and ASCII downloads. ASCII mangling should be
# on the client anyway..
#ascii_upload_enable=YES
#ascii_download_enable=YES
#
# You may fully customise the login banner string:
#ftpd_banner=Welcome to blah FTP service.
#
# You may specify a file of disallowed anonymous e-mail addresses. Apparently
# useful for combatting certain DoS attacks.
#deny_email_enable=YES
# (default follows)
#banned_email_file=/etc/vsftpd/banned_emails
#
# You may specify an explicit list of local users to chroot() to their home
# directory. If chroot_local_user is YES, then this list becomes a list of
# users to NOT chroot().
#chroot_list_enable=YES
# (default follows)
#chroot_list_file=/etc/vsftpd/chroot_list
#
# You may activate the "-R" option to the builtin ls. This is disabled by
# default to avoid remote users being able to cause excessive I/O on large
# sites. However, some broken FTP clients such as "ncftp" and "mirror" assume
# the presence of the "-R" option, so there is a strong case for enabling it.
#ls_recurse_enable=YES

pam_service_name=vsftpd
userlist_enable=YES
#enable for standalone mode
listen=YES
tcp_wrappers=YES

david_ross

At one point I think the config file was /etc/vsftpd.conf - try:
ln -s /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf /etc/vsftpd.conf
service vsftpd restart

Rinish

Though you dont want anonymous login in your server , you will have to replace
anonymous_enable=YES
to
anonymous_enable=NO


and as though you said that you want to give access only to three people,


replace userlist_enable=YES to userlist_enable=NO

add their login name to /etc/vsftpd/vsftp.user_list

then run service vsftpd restart


This will allow them to login and only them to login !



/ Rinish (rinishriju)