change group of ftp uploaded files

GATTACA · 07-21-2008, 03:53 PM

Hello.

This may be a simple option in vsftpd.conf that I just don't know about.

I have an anonymous FTP write-only folder up and running in our network.

Users upload files to /var/ftp/upload
The files uploaded become owned by a local user account. We'll call this user 'localGuy' for this post's purposes. So an example of a folder in /var/ftp/upload might be:

Code:

drwxrwx--- 2 localGuy       ftp       4.0K 2008-07-21 15:39 someFolder/

Is there a way to also change the group ownership?

I would like the permissions to be like this:

Code:

drwxrwx--- 2 localGuy       localGuy       4.0K 2008-07-21 15:39 someFolder/

Is this possible?

Thanks.

Mr. C. · 07-21-2008, 05:28 PM

chgrp localGuy someFolder

and then upload.

GATTACA · 07-21-2008, 06:57 PM

Thanks for the quick reply.

Yes that would work if the person uploading was on a *nix based computer but not if they were on a Windows box.

Is there a way to change the group ownership after the upload has occurred using vsftp?

Thanks

Mr. C. · 07-21-2008, 08:06 PM

The remote server doesn't make file permissions decision based on the client OS type. This makes no sense.