ProFTPD Question
 

Ok fellas, I'm a little baffled on this one, seems to make no sense to me and I've tried messing with this for the last few days.

Basically, I have an admin user that can go in and out of all directries within the /home directory.

I have a configuration like so:

<virtual host 1.1.1.1>
defaultroot ~
<directory /home/ftp>
<limit READ WRITE DIRS>
AllowGroup ftp
</limit>
</directory>
<directory /home/test>
<limit READ WRITE DIRS>
AllowGroup ftp
</limit>
</directory>
</virtualhost>
I made the admin's home /home and apart of group ftp, but when I login with admin and enter the directory /home/ftp or /home/test I can edit filenames/stor/retr with no trouble, BUT when I enter say /home/ftp/folder, most of my permissions are stripped. When I login to those directories with say user test that user has permissions to /home/test/folder. I am clueless as to why user admin does not retain these permissions. DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW TO FIX THIS???

Thanks.

Try adding "*" to your directory line so that it will apply not to just the ftp directory but to all subdirectories. If that doesn't do it, try "/*" instead but that may not allow access to the ftp directory itself.

Jim, I've messed with this for almost a week now, of course I've tried <directory /home/ftp*> and <directory /home/ftp*> .

BOTH do not work whatsoever. It is very strange and I don't understand why the permissions are not transfered to sub directories.. maybe its a bug. Does anyone have a clue as to how to set up the same permissions for multiple users on sub directories????

I've pretty much given up...:(

Sorry to have suggested something obvious!

Here's my proftpd.conf file, edited slightly to remove comments:

ServerName "FTP to Jim Kyle"
ServerType standalone
DefaultServer on
DefaultTransferMode binary
Port 21
Umask 011
MaxInstances 30
User nobody
Group nobody
ExtendedLog /var/log/ftp.log
AllowStoreRestart on

<Directory /*>
AllowOverwrite on
</Directory>

PassivePorts 51200 51299

<Anonymous ~ftp>
User ftp
Group ftp
UserAlias anonymous ftp
MaxClients 10
RequireValidShell off
AnonRequirePassword off
DisplayLogin welcome.msg

<Directory incoming>
<Limit STOR CWD CDUP PWD SIZE REST>
AllowAll
</Limit>
<Limit READ DIRS DELE MKD>
DenyAll
</Limit>
AllowOverwrite on
</Directory>

<Directory public>
<Limit RETR CWD CDUP PWD DIRS>
AllowAll
</Limit>
<Limit WRITE>
DenyAll
</Limit>
</Directory>

</Anonymous>

It took a while to get it all together, but it's been working the way I want it to for almost a year now so that my clients can send me large databases (up to a gigabyte at times) without them being exposed to public view, while anyone can browse the public directory. You can see it at ftp://jimkyle.dns2go.com/ and feel free to browse.