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List:       wuftpd-questions
Subject:    Re: no dirs not working
From:       "Peter Dumpert" <pdumpert () innovativebusiness ! net>
Date:       2003-05-21 13:43:21
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Have you tried restricted-uid or restricted-gid in the ftpaccess file?

On 20 May 2003 at 8:15, CJ wrote:

> I made some good progress last night then came in and
> the mgr decided he wanted me to do something
> different. It figures. 
> 
> Right now when I have the users log in they get logged
> into the /home/ftp/ftpusr dir then they have to cd to
> their home dir. I did this because of reading the how
> to guide and they said if you do not want to put the
> etc, bin, usr in every users dir you could do it that
> way. 
> 
> What I want is for the user to get logged in, then I
> want them to automagicaly get deposited in the upload
> dir under their home dir.  No cding to the dir just
> put them their
> 
> In the ftpaccess file I have the 
> guest-root /home/ftpusr 
> So they get deposited in the  “/” dir of that file
> system. This works as designed. 
> 
> In the /etc/passwd file (real one)and the
> ftpusr/etc/passwd I have the following entry:
> 
> test1:!:405:405:test ftp
> id:/home/ftpusr/test1/upload/./:/usr/bin/ksh
> 
> The user does not get put in the upload dir. They
> still get put in the pseudo “/” dir of /home/ftpusr. 
> 
> I am guessing the ftpaccess rule is over riding
> the/etc/passwd file entry. 
> 
> I remove the guest-root clause and created one for the
> individual user and that gets them to the upload dir.
> This works and put them in the upload dir. 
> 
>  However ls does not work now because they are not in
> the root dir where the bin dir is. 
> I guess I have to create a etc, bin usr dir under
> their upload dir to get this to work. 
> 
> 
> If I put /etc/ftponly it will not allow logins. This
> is not a big issue for me as the telnet and other
> connection methods will be turned off and or
> controlled by a  firewall rule. 
> 
> If this cannot be done do I need to create a
> guest-root for every user? 
> I am only having 6 users on this system. So it is not
> a public server with many users. 
> 
> Also it looks like my defumask 0337 is being ignored
> No matter what I put I get rw,r,r and the user can
> still get a file from the upload dir. 
> 
> I could create a dir in test1/uploads dir. This is a
> bad thing. 
> The nodirs is still not working. This is the line I am
> using in the ftpaccess :
> 
> upload /home/ftpusr/test1/uploads yes ftpadmin
> ftpadmin 0440 nodirs
> and I tried
> upload class=guest /home/ftpusr/test1/uploads yes
> ftpadmin ftpadmin 0440 nodirs
> 
> I tried the following and it did not work either
> noretrieve  /home/ftpusr/test1/uploads 
> so I put a * at the end and it does not allow the
> files to be retrieved. 
> What I don’t understand it that my noretrieve  
> /home/ftpusr/bin works with out the * on the end. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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