proftpd, like most ftpds use filesystem permissions when dealing with normal users, proftpd has the option to deny overwrites, which i (think?) is default(see /etc/proftpd.conf) for the anonymous user permissions it is treated as the user 'ftp' in most cases, and the root directory for anonymous users is ftp's home directory.
nate ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Kent West wrote: > I checked the docs and the archives, but I'm not understanding > what I need to do. > > I've got proftpd running, and I can ftp into my box as both > anonymous and a normal user. As each I can "get" files, put I > can't "put" files. For teh anonymous user, that's great. But how > do I specify that a normal user can "put" to his own home > directory? > > Thanks! > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >

