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.
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