Urza9814 Posted November 7, 2004 Report Share Posted November 7, 2004 (edited) Ok...here's my question. I have set up ProFTPD through webmin, and I am wondering if there is a way to have one user have access to a single folder in another users' /home. Like, could I have user guest have access to /home/urza9814/Documents/School or something, but not have access to anything else in /home/urza9814? Edited November 8, 2004 by Urza9814 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmc77 Posted November 7, 2004 Report Share Posted November 7, 2004 (edited) Yes, it's possible. I'm not real familiar with the terminal setup of proftpd, but if you Install gproftpd (GUI) it's quite easy. The way I have mine set up, - two buddies overseas have access. The first can only upload and download from /home/kevin/duke/damond, but the second can access /home/kevin/duke and everything down the tree from there. Never tried messing with Proftpd thru Webmin, so I'll be no help there. Edited November 7, 2004 by kmc77 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urza9814 Posted November 8, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 8, 2004 I got gproftpd...I'm not sure you understood what I was trying to do though...I want to give them access to two separate folders...their home and a folder in my home...yea...I re-read my post...shoulda made that more clear... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urza9814 Posted November 8, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 8, 2004 Question 2: Is there any way to give a specific user different permissions? Like, I want root to have overwrite permission, but no one else. Still doing this via webmin...that other prog confused me... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arthurking Posted November 12, 2004 Report Share Posted November 12, 2004 Hi Urza, I've been trying to learn ProFTP too, for about 4 weeks now, with limited success. I kinda understand what you're trying to do, but have you turned your ftp 'user' into a mandrake 'user' ? I think this is the trick here. I configured proftp with 3 users, ftp-anon, arthur and root. each has their own distinct permissions from mandrake. ie arthur (thats me!) can see some files in certain dirs and have normal permissions in ftp as I do in mandrake. root has unfettered access and ftp-anon is limited (but this is the account I'm having troubles with). So (I'm not sure how to set permissions) make sure you create a 'user' and give him permissions to certain files/dirs, then create the same 'user' in proftp and I rekon you will come close to your objective, I didn't really think about it when I configured proftp with webmin, it just happened this way for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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