Hi, I'm trying to allow access to user's public_ftp folders under their homedirs via ftp. I've got vsftp setup and it allows anonymouse only logins (which I want). Under /var/ftp I have a users directory and what I want is when someone goes to ftp.example.com/users/joe they are dispalyed joe's files under his public_ftp folder. User homedirs are mounted from another server. But be unable to ls the users directory for every user on the system. The problem I currently get is when trying to cd to joe I get
550 Failed to change directory

I had thought I found somewhere that I need to mount users public_ftp to /var/ftp/users, but could be wrong. So I have in auto.master
and in auto.ftp
I'm not sure what details you'd need to help me troubleshoot this problem, but here is some of my vsftpd.conf file

anonymous_enable=YES
local_enable=NO
write_enable=NO
local_umask=022
pam_service_name=vsftpd
userlist_enable=YES
#enable for standalone mode
listen=YES
tcp_wrappers=YES


Much thanks to anyone who can help!

I'm not sure if using the automounter is this best way to do it (although it would probably work if set up correctly). Do you get any automount errors in your system logs?

If it were me, I'd probably jusr symlink ~username/ftp_public to /home/ftp/users/username (assuming /home/ftp is the root directory anonymous users get when they log in via FTP).

Thanks for the response. I do get automount errors, a .htaccess file is trying to be mounted to /home but from all that I can tell no user has a .htaccess in their root home dir, and none at the mount repository /home

I'll try the symlink, but does that error above ring any bells for you?


Thanks again.