can someone help me configuring proFTPd?

the manpage can:
if you want help here, be more specific...

well, what i wan't is to configure it, i found a good ite: http://www.proftpd.org/docs/faq/link...h5.html#AEN452 but the proplem is that i can't open '/etc/proftpd.conf'
all i get is (in X) 'you don't have permission to read this file' or was it 'open this file'

anyway, i am using Mandrake 10.0, that followed a magasine called Linux Format and proftpd followed with it, and using KDE 3.2

-- mine is 644 for root:root, and i haven't touched it...

i'm sure we're all proud of you for using a non-root user for day-to-day tasks, but in this case you'll need more access rights. so logon to root from shell, and then you can edit that file...

well, how do i change permission in console?
i wan't to be able to change permission on a file (or a folder)

a normal user be able to read and write into a file
and change the permission on a folder from 'view content' to 'modifie and view content'

chmod for change permission
chown for change ownership

let's see here, basic ascii-based permissions tutorial...

you have 3 realms, if you will...
1) owner
2) group
3) world
each has 3 permission groups
1) read
2) write
3) execute

now, string those all together, and you would look at it like:
rwxrwxrwx
--owner rwx followed by group rwx followed by world rwx
got that?

now, all those permissions can be either on or off, in binary a 1 or a 0
so let's turn everything on, and you get
--owner 111 group 111 world 111, or 111111111
convert those to decimal, where 111 = 7, and you get permission leve 777

take away write access from someone, and it would be 101, convert to decimal = 5... say we leave owner/group with full permissions, and take away write access from everyone else, we would now have permission level 775...

follow?

so if i wan't to change permision, then i do:

'chmod 111111111' or 'chmod 777'
if i wan't to take permission off, then i do:
'chmod 111111101' or 'chmod 775'
which will make the file be able to read and write for root and users, but not for the world, they can only read and execute, got that
so am i suposed to add the file name after like:
'chmod 774 directory_or_filename'
?

BlackMan890

yup, you use the decimal, that's why i breifly went through those conversions -- the quoted gets you permissions rwxrwxr--

you will about never use permissions 777

now, root will have access, no matter what... the first grouping is for the owner of the file... you can change that using

more: try using for more info... you can also use options like [ugoa]+x and [ugoa]-w, and limit those for each *group* if you prefer that over the decimal conversions method...

wow, thanks guys
lol, i got some MAJOR proplem, in the folder, i had added a couple of files that i could modifie and read and so on, but take a look

# chmod 774 name_of_a_folder
#

ok i go to the folder and check the permission,, and i can modifie the folder, i enter, AND every file is locked, all i get is:

file/bla/folder_name/a_file doesn't seem to exist anymore

and i go to console and do:

vi nameoffile

and it seems to work
when i check the permission, then i get suprised, i can change the permission (in X, not in console) but i am only a user, so i check if i can modifie permission on the folder i just chager, and i get the normal (can't modifie)

what happened?

-=*bump*=-

sorry... kinda stopped reading after the thanx bit...

anyways...

ok, let's look at a scenerio, and you tell me if i'm understanding your problem:

you don't have access to a folder, so you chmod it, but you still don't have access to anyting in the folder... is this the case?

there is a 'recursive' option (-R) which you can use with both chmod and chown to recurse through directories into sub-directories, and hit every file along the way... but there is a danger to mention -- you must not start at too high a level, imagine what would happen if (as root) you ran i bet that'd really bugger things.