ProFTPd access to /var/www

[Bruce Pieterse]

On Oct 18, 2011 1:54 PM, "Oliver Marshall" <Oliver.Marshall at g2support.com>
wrote:
>
> YESYESYES!!!!!
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> 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.
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> Cheers everyone.
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> 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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I know this has been solved but you could also create a symbolic link in the
users home directory that points to /var/www. If they have the right
permissions and assigned to the www-data group or equivalent.
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