Mandrake 8.0 FTP Server.

[reicherb]

I'm trying to configure the FTP server that is standard with Mandrake. 8.0. The Server is running and I have made an incoming directory and made it writable by everyone. This works just fine. Short of change the permissions of the other directories how can I allow "SOME" users to upload to the other directories?

Thanks.

 

[flyers1]

Add a special group and change the group permissions of the directories you want the group to write to.

 

[reicherb]

That sounds like it would work, but I'm not sure how to create a group. And then how to I put existing users in it? I'm pretty new to the *nix world.

Thanks.

 

[konichiwa]

I'm not at all familiar with the Mandrake FTP server, but most FTP servers will allow you to set a separate "home" directory for every user. You can also make a "group" and add users into that "group", and then every user in that group will have the same home directory, settings, etc.

 

[cureless]

Mandrake has a graphical utility to add/change users/groups, I don't recall the name but I'm pretty sure its in one of the graphical menues.

To change the permissions of a directory/file you can do it with the chmod command, to change the owner with chown and the group with chgrp. Read the man pages if you want further info but its all straight forward.

You can also add a group by hand in the /etc/group file. To add users to a group just add them to the end and separate them with a comma.

cl

 

[n0cmonkey]

<< I'm trying to configure the FTP server that is standard with Mandrake. 8.0. The Server is running and I have made an incoming directory and made it writable by everyone. This works just fine. Short of change the permissions of the other directories how can I allow &quot;SOME&quot; users to upload to the other directories?

Thanks. >>



Make sure there are no updates to the ftp server! Behind http, smtp, and dns servers ftp servers are the most broken servers on the planet. Drop FTP if you can. If you are running a warez ftp server or whatnot you cant help it, but if you are using ftp for users you know, just force them to use openssh/scp. There are clients for windows machines out there and if you need one I can post links.