How do I have FTP access to my site on Fedora?

imsam · 03-20-2006, 04:18 PM

Hi,

I just setup my new Fedora machine w/ Apache. I now want to have FTP access to my site so that I can design a website. When I FTP in to the server, it takes me to default ftp location. How do I set up FTP access to my site and give myself read and write access to it?

Thanks

acid_kewpie · 03-21-2006, 01:29 PM

that will be either proftpd or vsftpd, so check which one you do have installed, e.g. by checking "rpm -qa | grep ftpd" or some other quick way and then read up on it's documentation. more often than not it's just a case of setting it in it's config files in /etc which are typically obviously commented.

personally i'd suggest removing the ftp server and using sftp over ssh instead. less services to attack and all that.

imsam · 03-21-2006, 02:54 PM

I was hoping for set up instructions. I know what I have i.e. vsftpd

My confusion is where do I define the users who will have access to the web site's directory and how do I give them access privileges so that they can both view and upload files to that directory?

This may sound basic to you guys but I'm new to Linux and my 2 Linux books or Google searches produce no answers to my question. My research gave me answers on how to give "everyone" access to a folder but not for a particular user.