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hi all

I wish to give access to my self to upload to www on my system

right now i'm in my Home Directory ( /home/tommytomato )

i see that the group is www-data for the www DIR

do i add my self to that group and then change user dir path to ( /var/www ) to upload files to www

system is Ubuntu 9.10, I've also got webmin installed, it was the only way I could find out what group www was

TT ( karl )

What service you wish to use to upload files in the www directory? assuming that you are on a remote system.

remote system NO, I have the server next to me on the floor, LOL

I want to be able to upload via FTP using my user account to upload files to the www with out changing any permissions to the apache2 if you get what I mean

vsftpd is working OK, www is working, http://www.rockinghamgateway.com/

I have a joomla site, plus others to upload, I can use winscp to upload to the www, but that does it has root, I want to keep away from using root as much as possible unless its for apt-get updates

TT ( karl )

I'd suggest you to create a system user with password, and you should set its home directory as the www directory.
Now whenever this user will be logged in with ftp, it will be able upload files in www. :)

OK, I created a user when i installed the system a few hours ago, it created ( /home/tommytomato ) dir, so your saying basically to edit path to ( /var/www )

TT ( karl )

just a note, I only have one user on the system and that's my self, not planning on having any more

TT ( karl )

See whenever you are logged in with a normal user account, ftp will put in /var/ftp directory, I don't know how to change this default behavior.
But whenever a system user uses ftp to login it will put that user into its home directory, and by setting the home directory according to your need you can change this default behavior.

I see, I changed the dir to /var/www, logged in via FTP, tried to upload some files and I get this message

Wonder do i add my self to the group www-data

TT ( karl )

Well that didn't work, LOL

TT ( karl )

Look for the UID_MIN value in /etc/login.defs
Then change the UID of the user to something below than that value, this value should not clash with other users UID. You can check /etc/passwd to determine if it is already used by any other user.

Then log out and login again and try using ftp, see if its working.

right now its

TT ( karl )

I can see that your UID is 1000 here change that to something lower than UID_MIN value.

yer i did to 900, lol, it still didn't work

TT ( karl )

I don't think 900 is lower than UID_MIN value. I still don't know whats UID_MIN value in your system, so can't tell you what should be the UID of that user.
P.S. Look into the /etc/login.defs for UID_MIN value.

Ok will do

I did find this thou, alittle unsure about it http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2947635

TT ( karl )