[ale] Group Rights

Yu, Jerry zyu at Ptek.com
Wed Sep 20 10:05:08 EDT 2000


I didn't noticed earlier posts. However, sounds like you had 'defaultRoot
~' turned on in proftpd.conf for the user. So, the FTP session is
chrooted thus /usr/local will not available to the user at all or anything
beyond the user's home dir for that matter. hope it is that simple :-)



On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Carl Forsell wrote:

#Dow, thanks for your response....
#
#I had already completed these steps and still no go.  I edited the group
#file manually, then took out my additions and redid them with YAST and same
#results.  Everything I read says this should be working, and it is not.
#
#Below is the log I get from the ftp program... (sanitized slightly)
#
#connecting to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:21
#Connected to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx port 21
#220 ProFTPD 1.2.0pre9 Server (powered by SuSE Linux) [aaa.aaa.aa.us]
#USER bbb
#331 Password required for bbb.
#PASS (hidden)
#230 User bbb logged in.
#PWD
#257 "/" is current directory.
#SYST
#215 UNIX Type: L8
#Host type (S): UNIX (standard)
#PASV
#227 Entering Passive Mode (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx,199).
#connecting to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:3783
#- -
#connecting to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:3783
#Connected to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx port 3783
#LIST
#150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list
#Received 148 bytes in 0.1 secs, (10.00 Kbps), transfer succeeded
#226 Transfer complete.
##############################################
#### this shows the contents of the users home directory###
##############################################
#CDUP
#250 CWD command successful.
#PWD
#257 "/" is current directory.
#CDUP
#250 CWD command successful.
#PWD
#257 "/" is current directory.
#CWD /usr/local/httpd/htdocs/XXX
#
#####################################
#### attempt to change to web site directory###
#####################################
#]
#550 /usr/local/httpd/htdocs/XXX: No such file or directory
#
#The directory does exist and has been set (recursive) to 777. Each of the
#directories has between 3 - 5 people in the group - and none of them can see
#their directories. (all can see their home directories and no more).
#
#Any further assistance would be greatly appreciated.
#
#Carl
#
#-----Original Message-----
#From: Dow Hurst <dhurst at kennesaw.edu>
#To: Carl Forsell <cforsell at roman.net>; ale at ale.org <ale at ale.org>
#Date: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 3:14 PM
#Subject: Re: [ale] Group Rights
#
#
#>You need to edit /etc/group to add the users to the specific group that
#>owns the web directory of the joint project.  Each user should have
#>his/her permissions/ownership set normally for their home directory.
#>You should think of the joint web directory as owned by a project leader
#>( one of the users) and owned by the special joint group you've
#>created.  Now in /etc/group add to the special joint group entry the
#>individual group members.  See the man page for the /etc/group file for
#>the syntax.  The group permissions on the web directory should allow
#>group read write exec, while the files within the directory should have
#>group read write permissions.  Hope this helps,
#>Dow
#>
#>PS.  Anyone have a better method to suggest?
#>
#>Carl Forsell wrote:
#>>
#>> Good morning all...
#>>
#>> I have a group of users who all need to be able to FTP into common areas
#on
#>> a SuSE 6.3 box.  I set up groups and gave the groups all rights to the
#>> directories (recursive).  When the users try to ftp in, they can see
#their
#>> home directories, but when they give the path for their web site
#>> directories, they get a "cannot find the directory" message.
#>>
#>> If I assign their home directory to the web site directory, the problem
#goes
#>> away... however this has implications for their e-mail. Do I need to edit
#>> the password file to add a reference to the group?
#>>
#>> Thank you in advance for any assistance.
#>>
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