How to make FTP with read only

hiep.pham · 06-18-2012, 01:05 PM

Hello,

I just created FTP user and now he also want a third party just have ability to read only with a share directory.
IE: ftp.xxx.com/wemade/images

So when this user send this url to a third party, all they can do it download and read only without asking un/pw and to edit.

Could someone tell me what need to be configure on the FTP server and what commands I should use.

Thanks,

Slackyman · 06-18-2012, 01:35 PM

If I understand your question it seems to me that you need a simple public FTP with public access (no user - no password).
Am I right?

hiep.pham · 06-18-2012, 01:45 PM

That's corrected. Just download no edit or modify. Let me explain one more time so hope don't confuse you

Just say I just create a FTP user John. Now he can login into FTP server and create a directory as below

/wemade/images.

And then after he done with that, he send this url to a third party and he just want that party able to download to see what in there, no edit.

Here is a URL: ftp.xxx.com/wemade/images

Can you tell me what commands I should configure on the FTP server?

Thanks,

Slackyman · 06-18-2012, 01:48 PM

First of all it's needed to know which distro is running on the ftp server and which ftp daemon is in use.
Every ftp daemon has his own configuration, but generally I'd suggest to use the preconfigured public dir to espose the public content to the world.

hiep.pham · 06-18-2012, 01:50 PM

can you tell me how can I find out what ftp service is running on our server?

Slackyman · 06-18-2012, 01:57 PM

There are so many ftp server daemons, but the most used are ProFTPd, VsFTPd.
You can see which is running by the command

Code:

ps -e | grep ftp

hiep.pham · 06-18-2012, 02:01 PM

It looks like our FTP server is running proftpd. Can you tell me what commands need to configure on the server in order to complete this request?

Slackyman · 06-18-2012, 02:04 PM

ProFTPd can be configured by its configuration file.
You can find a guide on how to configure ProFTPd here.
But let's say you customer need to upload file via ftp: he needs a ftp admin username and password to do this.
Is this your case?

hiep.pham · 06-18-2012, 02:07 PM

The user has been setup with un/pw. He can login ftp server and create directory.

But how can I configure when a third party want to open the url "above" without asking username and password or delete or edit.

Slackyman · 06-18-2012, 02:19 PM

Let's say you have a root directory such as /var/ftp and let's say you user can access this directory with his un/pw.
Let's even say that you user create another directory.
You can use this new directory as the HOME of anonymous users and chmod to make everyone able only to read and not to write. The Anonymous user has to be "jailed", "confined" in this directory so that he cannot reach upper levels.
Now it's needed to know HOW you added a user to the ftp server so that we can figure out what's next step.