Fedora FTP Servers

thendershot · 05-10-2006, 09:49 PM

Hello, I have tried the vsftp and the pro ftp server that comes with Fedora. I can connect to the server with either. I can upload a picture or a text file but I cannot create a folder.. or transfer a folder to the server. I keep getting a permission error and I cannot figure out how to resolve the issue.

Thanks!
Tom

twantrd · 05-11-2006, 03:08 AM

File permissions are not done on the FTP server configuration but rather on the system level. If you can upload files to directory say "dump", you can't make a directory in that level? What are the permissions of the directory that you are having trouble with?

-twantrd

thendershot · 05-12-2006, 08:37 AM

i create a username called test for example, log in with the password for test and try creating a directory in /home/test or I try creating a directory in /home/test/public_html it does not work via ftp but I can do it via the shell.

twantrd · 05-30-2006, 01:14 PM

Are you allowing users to have write permission? For example, my vsftpd.conf has this field:

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

-twantrd

thendershot · 05-31-2006, 09:22 AM

is this something new that must be done? I never had to do it before. Normally the default install just worked.

timmeke · 05-31-2006, 09:55 AM

It's ALWAYS a good idea to at least look at the configuration file of a service (like FTP) that you're trying to use. Never trust on the default configuration. Most defaults are designed for security and are thus very strict permission-wise ... which is supposed to make you take a look at the configuration and think about it for a second before you open up your machine to all kinds of attacks.