ProFTPd access to /var/www

[Jacob Mansfield]

On 18 Oct 2011, at 12:03, Oliver Marshall wrote:

> Hi chaps,
>  
> Has anyone got FTP working so that an external party can FTP to /var/www ?
>  
> I’ve been trying for ages. I’m easily on my 50th link from google searches and I’ve tried ProFTPd and some others but just cant get it working.
>  
> I’m currently running ProFTPd (using the GADMIN GUI). I gave up trying to create a dedicated user for this party and just used the logon details of the main account on the server. In ProFTPd I’ve assigned them permissions for the /var/www directory, but that doesn’t work. They just get a permission denied when changing folders in their FTP client.
> 
> So I used chown and chgrp to give that account permission to the /var/www directory but that hasn’t worked.
>  
> SCP isn’t an option, though I haven’t had much more joy with getting WinSCP working either, though I’m told that’s a limitation on WinSCP rather than SCP as a whole.
> 
> Could someone spare 5 mins to give me some advice on how this should be set up ?
> 
> Olly
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I believe that ProFTP chroot's you to the user's home directory be default. have you tried disabling this feature?

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Jacob Mansfield
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Project Manager, ITVET Ltd.

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