One Directory, multiple users

gdboling · 09-04-2003, 12:57 PM

I am wondering how to do group access to a directoy via FTP. I am using vsftp and rh9.

I have added a group, and added several users to this group. And now I want all these users to have access to a particular directory via FTP. The folder would be something like, /home/Common or something like that.

Thanks for any help.

Medievalist · 09-04-2003, 01:02 PM

Aren't users who FTP into a host taken to the home directory listed in /etc/passwd by default?

Usually /home/userid, but you could use the command "usermod -d /home/common userid" to change it.

I am not familiar with your FTP server daemon (I use SFTP only these days) so take this with a grain of salt....

gdboling · 09-04-2003, 01:06 PM

I don't want to change their home directory though.

Would it be better/easier just to give everyone the username and password for that directory instead of letting everyone have their own?

I will probably just do that.

tangle · 09-04-2003, 01:07 PM

I'm not familiar with vsftp, but to change the local permissions to give the group users ownership issue this command, chgrp users /home/common . If you want to have the user and group that owns the directory read/write/execute issue the command chmod 770 /home/common. I beleive in most if not all FTP servers, you can setup permissions within the deamon itself.

gdboling · 09-04-2003, 01:09 PM

Thanks Tom. I will try that out.