Proftpd, USB external HDD, ubuntu 10.04

Jeso · 04-23-2010, 03:40 AM

Hi.
Situation:
Proftpd server installed and running
External USB drive connected only sometimes with FTP folder on it, filesystem is NTFS

And what do I need? I need the FTP folder from the external USB HDD to be mounted (--bind?) to the ftp home directory whenever the disk is connected, and to be accessible via the ftp connection for reading.. Can anyone help me please?

System: Ubuntu 10.04 beta, Gnome
HDD: /dev/sdc1 WD640Gb

Thank you for any answer..

Tuttle · 04-23-2010, 07:59 PM

The easiest way I know is to mount your usb drive at /home/ftp then restart proftpd, don't try to automate this process, it's not worth the effort!

Jeso · 04-24-2010, 09:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tuttle

The easiest way I know is to mount your usb drive at /home/ftp then restart proftpd, don't try to automate this process, it's not worth the effort!

1) User FTP does not have the rights to access the drive since it has been mounted by logged on user (not the FTP one)

2) This could be solved by adding umask=000 to the fstab line, but i can't add there this line because it is ntfs drive and there is problem with fuse

3) I need to mount just one directory from the drive (ftp folder), the drive contains other data i don't wanna share..

Tuttle · 04-24-2010, 09:39 AM

then mount it anywhere you like and set the root directory using proftpd.conf

Jeso · 04-26-2010, 02:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tuttle

then mount it anywhere you like and set the root directory using proftpd.conf

But there is the problem.. When i connect the drive, it is mounted by current user. But the ftp user is different (!), so the ftp user does not have rights to access it. Only thing i need is to set privileges for the usb drive. How do i do it?

Thanks for help..

Tuttle · 04-30-2010, 02:45 AM

Sorry for the delay, been terribly busy...

Add this to your /etc/fstab file:

Code:

/dev/sdc1    /home/ftp    auto    noauto,uid=ftp,umask=022    0   0

edit: it won't mount automatically but once the usb drive is plugged in (and provided it's /dev/sdc - hint: type dmesg just after plugging it in) you can then mount it as root by typing:

Code:

mount /home/ftp

Tuttle · 04-30-2010, 02:52 AM

another trick is to discover the UUID of the usb drive (hint: hdparm) and use that in fstab instead of /dev/sdc1...