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> I wish to FTP from my win98 clients to Linux RH 6.2 server. When I try to
> send, it asks for a username and password as usual.
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> I wish to transfer data to /home/httpd folder, which belongs to root. When i
> FTP as a user, it gives a "permission denied" error (code 553), what should
> i do?
I think you should read more about file-permissions under Unix-like
systems.
see the manual pages of chmod and chown for a start
1] man chmod
2] man chown
In short, in the present case, the user you log in as has no write
permissions to the /home/httpd directory.
hth.
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jaju
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