Hi,


I have RED HAT 9 - working properly. I installed PROFTPD that's working properly too.

1 - I have a user called: fabiano
2 - I created a group called: bondade with RW attribute to the directory: /var/www/bondade

-> group status inside /etc/group is: bondade:x:506:fabiano
-> group privileges is: -rw-r--r-- 1 root bondade 16 Jan 4 10:56 index.php

3 - the user fabiano - is properly added to the system - the prove is:

inside: /home/fabiano
-rw-r--r-- 1 fabiano fabiano 52505 Jan 4 08:06 index.php

inside /etc/group
fabiano:x:503:

About the created GROUP:

1 - creatin my group:

/usr/sbin/groupadd bondade

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2 - change the group ownership of /var/www/bondade to group "bondade" created above.

/bin/chgrp -R bondade /var/www/bondade

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3 - add the proper users to the group

/usr/bin/gpasswd -a fabiano bondade

4 - to enable the bondade group's members to create, make the directory writeable by the group:

/bin/chmod g+w /var/www/bondade

5 - set the set-GID bit on /var/www/bondade to cause newly created files in the /var/www/bondade tree to have group ownersihp:

/bin/chmod g+s /var/www/bondade


Executing: ls - ld on /var/www/bondade i receive:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root bondade 16 Jan 4 10:56 index.php

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Publishing my files:
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Situation 1:
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I need to transfer - logged in as FABIANO - transfer my files to /var/www/bondade - when i try to do this - i receive, instead, the message telling me that or the directory does not exist or i dont have privilege permission.

This is the way i am informing the HOST DIRECTORY path to: ./www/qlinkcrm/

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Situation 2:
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If I try to login with the same user: fabiano to DIR -> ./fabiano i do successfuly and transfer my files without problem.

Why - I can't connect to host directory: /var/www/bondade - with the same user "fabiano" ?

Is this a PRIVILEGE problem or FTP problem?

I hope the informations above had been enough to give u a better idea of what i have here. Any further questions or informations to clarify your understanding proccess, tell me !!!

Thank u in advance for any support...

Fabiano Viana
luyznascimento_at_gmail.com

you also have a group with the same name as the user?
I'm not 100%, but shouldn't that show as -rwsr--r-- if the set-gid bit were set?
have you tried just to `chown fabian:bondade index.php` or chmod 664 to see if it points to your permissions prob?

cheers

oh, and put that - one space closer to ld if you want to see the directory permissions instead of the files
ie: use ls -ld instead of:

Hey Nilleso - thank u in advance for your time reading my post.

1 - by default every user on linux is part of /etc/group's dir.
2 - about the command g+s and then exec ls -ld (with no space between "-" and ld) i receive:
drwxrwsr-x 3 root bondade 4096 Jan 4 22:52 /var/www/bondade/
following what the book described is strictly the same. so, drives me to imagine that is completly correct.

I did not exec chmod as mentioned by u. As a newbie, u know, is very hard to keep up things clearly :-)

The book uses WU-FTPD but, as it mentioned too about PROFTD - I decided to start using this one - not the WU...As mentioned - I can normally connect with my normal user account: fabiano - to my directory (home/fabiano) and send my files. But directly to /var/www/bondade as a second option - well: NO. I am imagining that this is an FTP setup - what do u think?

Thank u.
Luyz Nascimento
luyznascimento_at_gmail.com

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SOLUTION
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1 - inside FABIANO's dir on /home/fabiano - CREATE A LINK to var/www/bondade like:

:: u are here: /home/fabiano and then :

ln -s /var/www/bondade

(*) now u have a LINK inside FABIANO's dir to other directory. So, Fabiano can FTP his files not only for /home/fabiano (own dir) but either to: /var/www/bondade.

(*) on host directory - just put the name of the link - in the case above was: bondade. so it comes: ./bondade/ - so, all files published to ./bondade/ will be published to /var/www/bondade and not for /home/fabiano !!

I hope this can help u !!!

Bye,
Luyz Nascimento