Rick, You don't say what OS he lost his password in. I'm assuming Linux. Depending on the distro he should be able to boot the machine into user level 1 (maintenance mode) and reset the password. Or use the distros cd to boot up the machine and mount the installed version and get the password updated.
Also check out: http://www.aplawrence.com/Linux/lostlinuxpassword.html http://madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=6 The other one can be done ( if I recall correctly ) by changing the user/group that the ftp server is running under. Nobody has no permissions for anything, as it should be. - Bill --- Rick Shepherd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Two unrelated items: > > > > I have a guy who has lost his root password. As far as I > know he has to > reinstall to reset the account. Am I right? > > > > Second, I have another guy - I swear, none of this is me > - who creates > files/folders via FTP remotely and wants to access them > locally over Samba. > The permissions are being set by VSFTP so that Samba is > read only. Under > Samba the permissions are nobody:nobody drwxrwsrwx in > this "public" > directory (/home/public). Of course over FTP there is a > login/pass and the > stuff created ends up as public:nobody drwxr-sr-x. How > can I make a remote > authenticated user create files in a public directory > that local users can > have their way with? > > > > Thanks guys, > > > > R > > > _______________________________________________ > RLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug > _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
