ProFTPd access to /var/www

[OliWare (Gmail)]

2011/10/18 Oliver Marshall <Oliver.Marshall at g2support.com>

> Hi chaps,****
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> Has anyone got FTP working so that an external party can FTP to /var/www ?
> ****
>
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> 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. ****
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> 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. ****
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> 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.****
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> Could someone spare 5 mins to give me some advice on how this should be set
> up ?****
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>
> Olly****
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> ****
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What's wrong with editing the proftpd.conf manually ?
Don't like this GUI stuff, you always miss something.


O.
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