Ftpd

[Oliver Leitner]

you might want to give proftpd a try...

/usr/ports/ftp/proftpd

for more info on proftpd you might wanna look on www.proftpd.org
they have quite a good documentation on it.

this should cover both of your questions...

Greetings
Oliver Leitner
Technical Staff
http://www.shells.at

On Friday 21 January 2005 01:36, Phillip Neumann wrote:
> Hello....
>
> I have problems to understand the way ftpd works.
>
> My goal is to create a ftp account where the user can download and
> upload files, and create directories where they could upload the files.
> But they should not remove nor rename any file or directory.
>
> 1)
>
> man chmod talks about a sticky  flag.
> Ive try that. but:
>
> (ls -la on the server)
> drwxr-xr-t   4 usuarioftp  usuarioftp   512 Jan 22 19:01 usuarioftp
>
> <lftp login.../>
> lftp usuarioftp at localhost:~> rm test
> rm ok, `test' removed
>
> i dont want users to be able to delete any files...
>
> 2)
>
> I dont understand permitions...
>
> i.e.
> lftp usuarioftp at localhost:~> ls root-file
> -rw-------  1 root        wheel         0 Jan 22 19:12 root-file
> lftp usuarioftp at 10.0.0.56:~> mv root-file why_can_i_do_this
> rename successful
>
> ps aux | grep ftp shows:
>
> usuarioftp 26747  1.0  0.3  1928 1404  ??  Ss    7:14PM   0:00.01 ftpd:
> 127.0.0.1: user/usuarioftp: LIST\r\n (ftpd)
>
>
>
>
>
> why can the ftp user rename the root file?
> how do i make users be able just to
>     1.- create directories
>     2.- upload files
>     3.- downlaod files
>
>
>
> thank you,
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