I'm new to Linux and it's command line and I need to change user rights on FTP server. The situation is like this:
I have a Debian server (without GUI, only with command line) with FTP server. And I have 2 users. Root (all access) and webmaster (limited user). Webmaster can upload files via FTP, but these get permission 600 (chmod 0600). But I need 0777.
How or where can I change this? I can log in as the root but I don't know how to manage FTP users.
I probably need to change "umask" for webmaster. I don't know what FTP software is my Linux using. I found file etc/login.defs with value #UMASK 022, but it is commented.
Can anyone help please? Explanatory link for beginners would be enought.
This depends on which package you use to provide your ftp server program.
With some programs you can specify a default umask on the daemon's command line.
With vsftpd you can specify it in /etc/vsftpd.conf. Here's a snippet from the default config file:
# Default umask for local users is 077. You may wish to change this to 022,
# if your users expect that (022 is used by most other ftpd's)
#local_umask=022
I think clients can also change their umask from the default from within an ftp shell.
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Since i have to change some settings inside "etc/httpd/conf.d/phpMyAdmin.conf".
i can't download this file using "FileZilla", I also tried sudo nano command in putty , it returns empty. i don't know how to change permission for this file.
I spent more than an hour. Guide me if someone know how to resolve this.
EC2 is a computer rental service, not a web hosting service, so you won't be able to connect with FTP (filezilla) unless you run an FTP server on your EC2 instance.
As for editing the file while you're connected through SSH (putty), you need to make sure that you're properly referencing the file you want. Try running "sudo nano /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpMyAdmin.conf". Note the leading "/" on the file path; it's important.
I'm new to Laravel and I find this framework awesome.
Artisan is also great but a have a little problem using it.
Let's say that I create a new Controller with Artisan like this
php artisan make:controller Test
There will be a new file in app/Http/Controllers named Test and the permission on this file will be root:root
When I want to edit this file with my editor over ftp I can't because I'm not logged as root.
Is there any ways to tell Artisan to create files with www-data group for example (without doing an chown command) ?
Since you have root shell access, the following command will execute another one using the www-data user-
sudo -u www-data php artisan make:controller Test
Replace www-data with whatever the username your web server operates under, or the username you login to the FTP service with.
When you do this, the controller will be owned by www-data, which is what you want.
Note: do not ever run commands copy-pasted from the internet without knowing exactly what they do, especially in a root shell.
In this case, the -u parameter tells sudo to execute the command as a specific user, not as the root user.
From the manpage:
-u user, --user=user
Run the command as a user other than the default target user (usually root ). The user may be
either a user name or a numeric user ID (UID) prefixed with the ‘#’ character (e.g. #0 for UID
0). When running commands as a UID, many shells require that the ‘#’ be escaped with a backslash
(‘\’). Some security policies may restrict UIDs to those listed in the password database. The
sudoers policy allows UIDs that are not in the password database as long as the targetpw option
is not set. Other security policies may not support this.
I know this is a really old post but I'd also really advise anyone agains editing your Laravel files over FTP. I used to do this in my pre-Laravel days and it NEVER ended well.
Editing over FTP can have all kinds of problems- dropping connection mid-edit being the least of them. Security and live development errors being a much larger concern.
Develop on your local or dev environment, commit/push to git, then either pipeline to your server or handle your FTP uploads and cleanup after the fact. Pipelines are your best bet if your host will allow them. We use Atlassian BitBucket for ours but the set-up and deployment should be relatively similar for most hosts. Check with your host for documentation on their pipeline set-up:
https://www.atlassian.com/continuous-delivery/tutorials/bitbucket-pipelines
There's also some tutorials online for pipelining straight to FTP (if on a shared host, say):
https://www.savjee.be/2016/06/Deploying-website-to-ftp-or-amazon-s3-with-BitBucket-Pipelines/
It is because you ran a command from root user, try to run the command from the user which you using for edit the project via ftp.
I have an embedded system running linux and I have busybox installed for running different services. One of the services is ftpd, which I start like this from the etc/init.d/rcS file:
tcpsvd 0.0.0.0 21 ftpd -w -v /mnt/flash&
I have two users in the system, root and a regular user. Root user can easily connect to the FTP server, but when I try to login with the regular user's credentials, I get this error:
ftpd[678]: can't change root directory to '/mnt/flash': Operation not permitted
Now, I thought that it must be a directory permission problem, and I started with changing permissions on the /mnt/flash directory first, but after this didn't work, I ended up having all my files in file-system including / to be owned by this regular user and have drwxrwxrwt permissions (just to find the cause of the problem). But I still get this error.
I have also tried to start ftpd with different root folders, including /.
I also couldn't find any config files for the ftpd in my file-system, maybe I need to create one manually? If so, which one and how to tell ftpd to allow user logins?
I'd really appreciate any help. Thanks.
Well, after trying some random things, I discovered that user login works fine if there is no directory changing involved at all:
tcpsvd 0.0.0.0 21 ftpd -w -v &
I suspect that chroot is called otherwise and the user does not have a right to do that.
I am trying to setup a FTP server. I am using VsFTPd on an Ubuntu server that will authenticate against an LDAP server.
My users should have access to their personal directory (read/write), to their public directory (read/write), to the public directory of other users (read) and to a general public directory (read). Admin users have read/write access on all directories.
My problem is the following: when a user is created on the LDAP server, he should be able to connect to the FTP server. But his directories will not be created on the FTP server. Another part of the problem is the modification of the status of an user: if an user becomes admin, how do I change his configuration to give him access to all the directories?
One solution would be to execute a script when an user tries to connect to the FTP server. This script would check if the directories are created and if not, create them.
But how can I configure VsFTPd to execute a script when an user logs in?
Thank you for your help.
You should use the pam module pam_mkhomedir. Use it globally for all the system or only for VsFTP if your installation was compiled against libpam.so. Check this using ldd in the vsftpd binary.
I am moving an application from Unix (AIX) to Windows. We have MKS Toolkit on the Windows server in order to run our shell scripts fairly unchanged. However, my old FTP jobs depend on the .netrc file. Can anybody tell me whether .netrc is supported under MKS Toolkit, and if yes, where to put the file?
http://www.mkssoftware.com/docs/man4/netrc.4.asp :
The .netrc file is a text file residing in your home directory [...]
http://www.mkssoftware.com/docs/man1/bsdftp.1.asp
If auto-login is enabled, bsdftp checks the .netrc file in the user's home directory [...]