users and groups

johnh10000 · 03-09-2010, 05:56 AM

now i thought i understood this, but apprently not

i have set my ftp dir and everything in it to be ftp:users with permissions set to 575.

add my self to the group

with a gpasswd -a johnh users

and add ftp to group

gpasswd -a ftp users

i can't write in the ftp directory

why?

smoker · 03-09-2010, 06:48 AM

Set it to 775.

kbp · 03-09-2010, 06:50 AM

Which ftp daemon are you using ? ... do you have write enabled in the ftp daemon config ?

eg.

vsftpd.conf -

Code:

# Uncomment this to enable any form of FTP write command.
write_enable=YES

cheers

johnh10000 · 03-09-2010, 07:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by smoker

Set it to 775.

so the owner has to beable to write to it as well?

johnh10000 · 03-09-2010, 07:14 AM

[QUOTE=kbp;3891442]Which ftp daemon are you using ? ... do you have write enabled in the ftp daemon config ?
[quote]
proftp-basic

[quote]

Code:

# Uncomment this to enable any form of FTP write command.
write_enable=YES

cheers/QUOTE]

yeah, i get that. my friend who has a user ftp account here, recons that ftp should be availble in his chroot jail. also he sends me stuff sometime, so I have fstabed incomming <i know, the scripts are written now!> so that way it goes everywhere hence fstab bind, and I need that incomming writable in ftp, my incomming dir, and in his.

johnh10000 · 03-09-2010, 07:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by johnh10000

so the owner has to beable to write to it as well?

did that still can't write to it

now we have /home/ftp 775 <ftp:users>

me being johnh but a member of users, so why can't i write to it? it don't make sense.

it gets worse, it's MY ACCOUNT thats screwed up, i logged on locally as my mate jono, and he can write everywhere <users> group is

smoker · 03-09-2010, 07:37 AM

Are you using a group password or your own user password ?
Have you changed to the group ?
newgrp users

johnh10000 · 03-09-2010, 07:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by smoker

Are you using a group password or your own user password ?
Have you changed to the group ?
newgrp users

I have not set any group passwds. That was one of things I just thought of, so a quick chown -R johnh:users /home/johnh the result the same.

Annoying, but I can write incomming so can jono. he has a copy /home/ftp in chrooted home directory, and incomming. he can't write to ftp, and can to incomming. so achived the result i want. can't sus why its form and not me.

thanks anyway. happy times a foot off to get my new box, now quicker, so the darn ftp thing will be moving house later!!!