Subject: Re: FTP configuration
From: Jim Cole (greyleaf@yggdrasill.net)
Date: Thu Mar 09 2000 - 17:10:45 MST
If you want to deal with a little extra configuration work, you can also
create a user/group specifically for your web based stuff. If you then
upload, edit, create, etc. as that user, the permission issues should
take care of themselves.
Jim
Scott J. Salvi's bits of Thu, 9 Mar 2000 translated to:
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>If you can in fact FTP into your machine, you will be placed in the home
>dir. of the user you logged in as. This can be changed in the /etc/passwd
>file. What I would reccomend, is that you ftp your files into a users'
>directory, and telnet in and move everything...that's the easiest way....if
>you start to play around with the http folder with other users, there's a
>chance of having incorrect permissions on files, and no one will have
>access to your box.
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> Reid Anderson
> <resander@cs.ham To: <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
> ilton.edu> cc:
> Subject: Re: FTP configuration
> 03/09/00 03:14
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>I too would like to know how to do this and also to make sure that I can
>upload files in the /home/httpd/html/ directory.
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>Thanks,
> Reid
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>on 3/9/00 5:03 PM, Vince Marco at vince.marco@iname.com wrote:
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>> Can someone help me out with the configuration of FTP? I am trying to
>> get some files to and from YDL on my G4 (both from and to a PowerBook
>> and NT). I figured setting up FTP would provide the most accessible
>> scenario without fiddling with Samba or NFS.
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>> I have the Linux Unleashed book and they say that the Red Hat files for
>> FTP config are:
>> /etc/ftpaccess
>> /etc/ftpconversions
>> /etc/ftphosts
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>> However, I didn't find the above files, but rather came across the
>> following files:
>> /home/ftp/groups
>> /home/ftp/passwd
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>> I'm really just looking for the quickest way to get FTP working and
>> available to my other machines.
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>> Thanks,
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>> Vince
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