Re: [Hampshire] vsftpd confusion

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Author: Mike Burrows
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] vsftpd confusion

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>> The owner or group ID of vsftp must be writeable to that folder,
>> doesn't have
>> to be 666/777, but say vsftp user is vsftp and group is vsftp, just
>> make the
>> folder writeable to that group, chown :vsftp /home/ftp; chmod g+w
>> /home/ftp
>>
>> Either UID or GID writable will work, but if the folder is owned by
>> your user
>> too, you may just want to make the folder that vsftp writeable to group.
>>
>>

Most if not all the files associated with vsftpd seems to be root/root.
Did I screw up the install?

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1392 2008-02-01 19:30 AUDIT
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2908 2008-02-01 19:30 BENCHMARKS
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1046 2008-02-01 19:30 BUGS
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4142 2011-03-25 14:10 changelog.Debian.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 828 2011-03-25 14:10 copyright
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 2011-09-08 22:45 EXAMPLE
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4697 2008-02-01 19:30 FAQ.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1361 2008-02-11 22:42 README

btw, what do you mean by ..."vsftp user is vsftp"? Who is the vsftp
user, the anonymous person logging in?

Cheers
MIke