On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 04:47:17PM -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 04:32:09PM -0400, Robert Haehnel wrote:
> > To allow someone write permissions to a dir via anon ftp you have to do both
> > chmod 777 /home/ftp/pub/incoming
> No no no no no!!!!
> chmod 755 if you wish (but only if ftp does NOT own incoming - 555
Damn! I hate it when I jump the gun...
chmod 733, not 755. 333, not 555. --- rwx --- you want wx and
not r. Sigh...
> if it does and 711 is better yet [if ftp does not own incoming]!) but do
711 is right.
> NOT allow both read and write access to incoming!!!! Unless, that is, you
> really WANT to become a WAREZ site where the script kiddies and ankle
> bitters trade the warez and c00l 31373 stuff!
> If you want to do it right, make sure you have an ftp and an ftpadmin
> user id and group id (each different). The ftp process runs as ftp.ftp. The
> incoming directory is own by ftpadmin.ftpadmin. Then set the mode to 775.
Should be 773.
> Any real user you want to grant read and write access to incoming
> then gets added to the ftpadmin group (this is outside of ftp I'm referring
> to now). Anonymous ftp users should NEVER have both read and write access
> to any files or directories on your system.
> > and add to /etc/ftpaccess
> > upload /home/ftp * no
> > upload /home/ftp /pub/incoming yes ftp 600
> > (and you don't need to re-start ftpd to get the changes in ftpaccess to work,
> > oops!)
>
> > Thanks Lawson
>
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> > R. Haehnel
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> Mike
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