On 8 February 2011 10:04, Tim <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am running ubuntu 10.04LTS and have VSFTP installed, I can ftp to the local > users home folder without a problem but I need to be able to ftp to the web > servers /var/www/myfolder When I try to ftp to the /var/www/myfolder I get > critcal file transfer error (using Filezilla). > > I am guessing this is a user or group permission problem, at the > moment /var/www/myfolder is owned by user root and group web, the local user > (std user) is a member of the group web. What permission should I change the > folders and user to to get ftp access to the /var/www/myfolder (I am asking as > I don't want to randomly start changing permission and cock it up).
If the ftp-user is in group web and the files are group-owned by web , then make the files group-writable and you should be fine. cd /var/www/ chmod -R g+w myfolder -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday 2011-03-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
