default ftp directorys

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#1 Wed, 03/08/2006 - 04:41
chumly

default ftp directorys

Hi All,

Fresh fc4 install. Fresh virtualmin install.

On creation of a new domain, ftp allows access to the maildir, but not the public_html dir. Is this the expected result?

I would think the ftp will be used to upload the web sites, not to download mail, and there should be public_html access.

Anyone else have this problem?

Thanks Kevin

Wed, 03/08/2006 - 13:36
Joe
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Hi Kevin,

Users should have access to their home directory--so the domain owner user should have access to cgi-bin, public_html, etc, and so on, within their home. Mailbox users will generally only have mail in their home directory--and so, I assume you're logging in as a mail user.

You can create additional website maintenance users which do have FTP access to the domain home directory, but normal mailbox users don't get that level of access and I don't believe they should.

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Wed, 03/08/2006 - 13:50
chumly

AH,

Excellent.

Thank you!

Fri, 03/17/2006 - 04:41
stelios

Hello,

Is there a way to asign a ftp user to a specific folder other than the public_html?

Thanks

Fri, 03/17/2006 - 14:14 (Reply to #4)
Joe
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Hey Stelios,

The domain user has FTP access to all folders within the domain home (i.e. /home/domain) and not just public_html, while mail users have access to their own home directory.

You can also create a "web content administrator" user that has access FTP access to the domain folders, but no administrative access via Virtualmin/Webmin.

But I'm not sure that's what you're after. What folder do you want to assign an FTP user to? We're limited to what the FTP server (ProFTPd) will let us do, so if the FTP server can do it, we can add support for it--but if the FTP server doesn't support it, there's not much we can do about it.

DAV is more flexible, in that very fine-grained access controls are possible without any file system permissions questions coming up (usually). There are quite a few aspects of this which haven't been integrated into Virtualmins support for DAV, and it's not really very easy to abstract into a GUI...

Anyway, if you can be more specific about what you're trying to do, I might be able to tell you how (or at least confirm that it isn't possible with FTP).

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Fri, 03/17/2006 - 14:56
stelios

Hi Joe,

I need to asign for example a user to the /home/domain/public_html/forum folder and only to this one.
Is this possible somehow?

Thanks

Mon, 03/20/2006 - 14:31 (Reply to #6)
Joe
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Hi Stelios,

You can create a user that has this as his home directory. You almost certainly shouldn't set it up for mail and other features--just make it exclusively for use in administering the forum website content. Allowing mail and other features might confuse whatever software you've got running in that directory.

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