Subject: Re: Can't get my web pages from mac to YDL using FTP or Atalk
From: Matthew 'Fringe' Duhan (fringe@shore.net)
Date: Mon Mar 12 2001 - 21:39:53 MST
For security, and by design, you cannot normally telnet nor ftp as root.
Console or su only.
What I'd recommend is create a new user account (/usr/sbin/useradd) or use
nobody or web as the owner for your Web site. The web root directory
(/home/httpd/html) should be chowned to this user. Then you will be able to
ftp in from DW, Vicomsoft, or any other FTP connection, and change to the
correct directory.
As for netatalk, you can connect as a user as well and access the default
home directory. To see directories higher in the heirarchy, hold down the
command (apple) key while clicking on the title name of the window. This
will let you navigate up the heirarchy. This functionality has been in MacOS
for a while.
Hope this helps,
Matt
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Tom Arnold wrote:
>Bare with with me on this. There's probably dozen ways I could fix this and
>I haven't figure out any yet.
>
>What I want to do: use Dreamweaver on my Mac to edit web sites, which will
>be served by Apache on YDL. The Apache server httpd.conf has
>DocumentRoot "/home/httpd/html"
>
>So I would want to store my site in a subdirectory somewhere like
>/home/httpd/html/mywebsite
>
>How to get them there? Well, Dreamweaver (DW) has ftp built in to "publish"
>a site. But I can't get an ftp connection to my Linux box using DW, nor
>using Vicomsoft FTP Client. (I've used both tools successfully to ftp to
>several other servers.) I've used Webmin to check the FTP service on my
>Linux server, which appears to be enabled.
>
>So, potential fix #1 would be to get it so I can ftp the files to the proper
>directory.
>
>I also run the atalk daemon so I can store files on Linux from my mac. Using
>this, I can mount my home directory and save files in it, including a whole
>site for DW. However, I can't get atalk to let me "see" any other
>directories outside my user directory. Also I can't mount any Linux files as
>root. That is, if I open the Chooser, type in my server's IP address or DNS
>name, and type "root" in the Name box and type the root password in the
>password box, it doesn't work. (I'm not thrilled that it sends a cleartext
>password either, but I haven't wanted to rebuild atalk to change that.
>[miniflame -- why doesn't the "default" build of atalk support encrypted
>passwords? sheesh] )
>
>Potential fix #2 would be to access ~httpd/html via atalk. Haven't been able
>to get it to work.
>
>Since storing them in my home directory on Linux at least gets them to the
>right machine, I've tried moving the files to ~httpd/html after getting them
>to my home directory. This gives me all kinds of weird access problems --
>permissions are screwed up when I do it this way. There's probably some sort
>Apache configuration change to fix that, too. I guess that would be
>potential fix #3.
>
>Another weirdness is that if I telnet to my Linux machine, I can log in as a
>regular user then do an "su root" successfully. But I can't log in as root.
>This somehow seems like it might be related to the problem of not being able
>to mount ~root via Chooser.
>
>Sorry if this seems to be all over the place. I'll be happy to get this
>problem solved by *any* means. Over time perhaps I'll understand the reasons
>behind *all* these issues.
>
>-Tom
>
>
>
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