Re: [Hampshire] vsftpd confusion

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Author: Mike Burrows
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] vsftpd confusion
On 9/14/11 11:10 AM, Ian Grody wrote:
> 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
>
>

Hey Ian. You have helped immensely so far. What would help me is if you
could explain the various components of the output of lsof and how they
relate to the ftp users, ftp and nobody, that it is reporting.

Thanks much

Mike