On Wednesday 26 September 2007 23:41, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote:
> Wed, 26 Sep 2007, by [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> > Hi
> > I have setup a vsftpd server and it works fine. Users can login and are
> > chroote'd to their home folders.
> >
> > I have allowed myself to break out of the chroot because I want to manage
> > files under /srv/www/htdocs remotely. But I do not have permissions to do
> > anything there. Stuff under htdocs is owned by root:root on the server
> > but ftp'ing in here it's owned by 0:0. How can I give myself permission
> > to the htdocs folder?
>
> Make htdocs owned by another user. I've setup an 'ftpadmin' user for this.
> Let htdocs be the (chrooted) home dir of ftpadmin and logged in as this
> user you can do what you need.
>
Thanks Theo. Just one more question. What group does ftpadmin belong to? Will 
there be any permission issues if I do that? Will the permissions be 
preserved? Some need 777, others 666, others 600.

Cheers, Lynn
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