ProFTPd access to /var/www

[Oliver Marshall]

YESYESYES!!!!!

Thanks for all the help.

In the end I removed the GADMIN/ProFTPd that I got from the software centre in Ubuntu. I installed it just using apt-get.

I then made a new user whose home folder was /var/www and chown'd and chgrp'd that folder so that they were the daddy.

It started working.

Cheers everyone.

Olly


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-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Avi Greenbury
Sent: 18 October 2011 12:41
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: ProFTPd access to /var/www

Oliver Marshall wrote:

> 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.

This is by far the easiest way normally. Create a user whose home directory is wherever you want to be able to FTP to, and make sure they've all the permissions on that directory.

useradd -d /var/www/ ftpuser

will create an user called 'ftpuser' with a home directory of /var/www, you'll then want to make sure they can get in, precisely how you do that depends on what else needs access to /var/www/, and what sort.


> 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.

This is probably because you've not turned off the feature that jails users to their home directory. I know you turn it on with

DefaultRoot ~

I suspect commenting that line out will turn it off, but I've never run proftpd without that so I'm not sure.

> 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.

WinSCP is a bit rubbish by many accounts. Most GUI FTP clients will do scp if you call it 'SFTP'. What is it about scp that makes it not an option?

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