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FTP Permissions / Home Directory errors

Quick question,

I have a website in:

/home/httpd/vhosts/whatever.com/httpdocs

(bad spot, works, not the issue)

I made a directory under it called /members/membername.

If I hit www.mysite.com/members/membername, I get the default index file, and that is happy.

However when I FTP to my site, and login as the user, I get "Service not available, remote server has closed connection".

The user is the owner of members/membername, and I chmodded it to 777 just to see if that'd help, but no dice.

Is there another permission I need to set on this so that he can FTP into his home directory?

btw: I set his home dir to /home/httpd/vhosts/whatever.com/httpdocs/members/membername.

Thanks!

What ftp server are you running? My last install of pure-ftp grabbed users from the system users. I guess you have to add them on the system.

Proftpd on RH9.

They're added in /etc/passwd, did an adduser, etc.

Try here, specifically section 2...

http://www.castaglia.org/proftpd/doc...-HOWTO-NAT.txt

Quote:

Originally posted by Donboy
Try here, specifically section 2...

http://www.castaglia.org/proftpd/doc...-HOWTO-NAT.txt

Hmm, wrong link?

The server runs and connects fine, it's an account/permissions issue, not a NAT issue. :)

Man, I have no idea. If it's not NAT, then maybe something to do with your config file. Post it here and maybe an answer will surface.

Here's my proftpd.conf, the include file that it references is blank.

Code:

-sh-2.05b$ cat /etc/proftpd.conf

#

# To have more informations about Proftpd configuration

# look at : http://www.proftpd.org/

#



# This is a basic ProFTPD configuration file (rename it to

# 'proftpd.conf' for actual use.  It establishes a single server

# and a single anonymous login.  It assumes that you have a user/group

# "nobody" and "ftp" for normal operation and anon.



ServerName                      "ProFTPD"

ServerType      inetd

ServerType      inetd

DefaultServer                  on

<Global>

DefaultRoot    ~

AllowOverwrite          on

</Global>

DefaultTransferMode    binary

UseFtpUsers                    on



# Port 21 is the standard FTP port.

Port                            21

# Umask 022 is a good standard umask to prevent new dirs and files

# from being group and world writable.

Umask                          022



# To prevent DoS attacks, set the maximum number of child processes

# to 30.  If you need to allow more than 30 concurrent connections

# at once, simply increase this value.  Note that this ONLY works

# in standalone mode, in inetd mode you should use an inetd server

# that allows you to limit maximum number of processes per service

# (such as xinetd)

MaxInstances                    30



#Following part of this config file were generate by PSA automatically

#Any changes in this part will be overwritten by next manipulation

#with Anonymous FTP feature in PSA control panel.



#Include directive should point to place where FTP Virtual Hosts configuratio

#preserved



ScoreboardFile /var/run/proftpd/scoreboard



# Primary log file mest be outside of system logrotate province



TransferLog /usr/local/psa/var/log/xferlog



#Change default group for new files and directories in vhosts dir to psacln



<Directory /home/httpd/vhosts>

        GroupOwner      psacln

</Directory>



Include /etc/proftpd.include

-sh-2.05b$

Again anything in /home/whoever works fine, but if I move it to /home/httpd/vhosts/whatever.com/httpdocs/members/membername, it won't let people login.

The reason for the long folder is so that people can upload things (pics, etc) and link to them, and /httpdocs is the only folder that apache can see.

Thanks again. :)

Hmmm.. well, here's mine. This works fine for me. Maybe there's something here you can use.

Code:

ServerName                        "FTP Server"

ServerType                        standalone

DefaultServer                        on

RequireValidShell                off

TimeoutStalled                        300

TimeoutNoTransfer                1000

TimeoutIdle                        1000

UseReverseDNS                        off

AllowRetrieveRestart                on

AllowForeignAddress                on

ServerIdent                        Off

DefaultRoot ~

ListOptions -a

DisplayConnect /etc/proftpd/prelogin.msg

Port                                21

Umask                                022

MaxClients                        50

MaxInstances                        15

MaxClientsPerHost                3

MaxHostsPerUser                        3

User                                nobody

Group                                nobody



<Directory />

        HideUser root

        AllowOverwrite        on

        HideNoAccess On

        <Limit ALL>

                AllowAll

        </Limit>

        <Limit SITE_CHMOD>

                AllowAll

        </Limit>

</Directory>

Are your home directories /home/username, or are they somewhere else?

Yeah, each one is /home/username, and I have a bunch.

I'm trying to bury them underneath a single /home/username, like /home/username/stuff/morestuff/thefolderinquestion.

Not sure if that matters, really. :\

I think all you need is to have each user's home directory specified in /etc/passwd and have all the levels chmod 755 all the way to their home directory... so you'll want to have /home /home/username /home/username/stuff (etc, all the way down to their actual home dir) all of them chmod 755.