Re: [Hampshire] vsftpd confusion

On Wednesday 14 September 2011 02:50:48 Mike Burrows wrote:
> 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.
>
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Try another ftpd?

ProFTPd or NCFTPd

I honestly am shot for ideas

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> OK so I am still trying to achieve anonymous download. Here is some of
> the output from lsof -i
>
> vsftpd 14795 root 3u IPv4 35342 TCP *:ftp (LISTEN)
> vsftpd 14797 nobody 0u IPv4 35343 TCP
> eddie.steele.net:ftp->dynamic-XXX-XXX-XXX-XXXC.knology.net:XXXXX
> (ESTABLISHED)
> vsftpd 14799 ftp 0u IPv4 35343 TCP
> eddie.steele.net:ftp->dynamic-XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX.knology.net:XXXXX
> (ESTABLISHED)
>
> I change the onership of /home/ftp to both nobody and ftp changing the
> group permissions to g+w in both cases and although I can connect to the
> ftp anonymously, classicftp cannot download a file. It reports "cannot
> open file:filename". I even added a group ftp and changed the group of
> /home/ftp from root to ftp. In that case I could not connect to the
> server at all:(
>
> any more thoughts?
>
> TIA
> Mike
>
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