Followup-To: poster
Precedence: bulk
I have been trying to use WU-FTPD Version 2.4 on my OSF/1 Version 3.2
(Rev. 214) to allow individuals to be able to download HTML files to
specific directories within my WWW server root directory. However, I am
unable to get the Group Access capabilities working using the login
directory field. According to page 80 of the book "Managing Internet
Information Services", "the login directory field is interpreted in a
special way by FTPD. The login directory field is actually two
pathnames, seperated by /./, (slash-dot-slash). The first pathname is
the directory the guest user will be chroot()ed to, and the second is the
pathname (relative to the chroot()ed directory) of the guest user's login
directory. So the entry:
guest1:PCdpadpPDpad:202:21:Guest FTP user:/users/guests/./guest1:/bin/false
changes guest1's view of the filesystem so that /users/guests appears to
be the root and logs her in to the new root's guest1 directory."
When I create a directory with the GID and UID set as specified in my
/etc/passwd file, I get the following error when I try to ftp in :
Password:
550 Can't set guest privileges.
Login failed.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
I think I am on the right track, but I cannot see where the problem is.
I have checked directory ownerships, privs etc., and cannot find anything
wrong.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how I may be able to fix this problem
or even a better way to allow individuals to download files to specific
directories? I don't want them to be able to access any other
directories than the one they login to, which is what I believe that
WU-FTP is doing with the above example.
Thanks in advance,
Neil :-)
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Neil Movold Phone : +1 809 296-1800
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Received on Sun Oct 29 1995 - 20:35:55 NZDT