Creating VSFTPD Full permission User to /var/www/html

vibin · 12-29-2005, 11:26 AM

Hi All,

I want to create a vsftpd user - user1 which needs full acces to /var/www/html which will be the home directory also.

The owner of /var/www/html is user owner1 and owner1.

Please help me to make a ftp user user1 which has full permission to /var/www/html

Regards, Vibin.

gilead · 12-30-2005, 05:20 AM

It's probably better to make the user's home directory under the /home directory. There are usually a bunch of files in a home directory (especially if you log in using a gui). If you create the user the same way you've created other users, then create another group (maybe called ftpuser), then chgrp /var/www/html to ftpuser and give the ftpuser group write permissions to /var/www/html you should get the same result.

XavierP · 01-01-2006, 03:17 PM

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vibin · 01-02-2006, 12:21 AM

Thanks glead, it worked. I just added the new user to apache group and gave the html folder writable for the group, is it fine? any security risk?

But can u advice the cmd to make www as the ftp root folder when the user log in using vsftp, now its logging to the user home folder which is the default.

Thanks Again, Vibin.

gilead · 01-02-2006, 01:15 AM

Having the web user as a member of the same group as the group owning the web server files is not a problem. The easiest way to get to the web server files quickly from the home directory is to create a link:

Code:

ln -s /var/www/html /home/user/html

Now when you ftp into the box your default directory is still your home directory (/home/user), but when you type `cd html` you will be at /var/www/html

Will that do what you want it to?

vibin · 01-03-2006, 02:32 AM

Thanks.....it was exactly what i need. Thanks a lot.