I operate a server on which I am typically the only ssh user, but I
do provide a small number of users ftp access.
Each user has their own home directory. Currently all home
directories have read permission set for 'other'. This means if I log
in as one user, I can read and even download th
On Jul 31, 2008, at 5:40 PM, Catalin Miclaus wrote:
Hello John,
If you are providing only FTP services for those users, perhaps you
want
to go for an FTP server that handles virtual users.
I'm using pure-ftpd and it works great.
Google will help you find some nice howto's for same.
Hi Ca
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To: Catalin Miclaus
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Subject: Re: Controlling read access
On Jul 31, 2008, at 5:40 PM, Catalin Miclaus wrote:
> Hello John,
>
> If you are
Hello John,
There are some things that you can try.
What if you connect from localhost and transfer files, is it still
very
slow?
Try to disable TLS/SSL and see if this improve performance.
Increase debug level and check the log for any errors.
Well, I am learning lots about FTP :-)
I didn
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John Almberg wrote:
|> Hello John,
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|> There are some things that you can try.
|>
|> What if you connect from localhost and transfer files, is it still very
|> slow?
|> Try to disable TLS/SSL and see if this improve performance.
|> Increase debug le
| Now I have just one major league problem: when I logged in as one
of the
| users, to test the connections, I discovered that I had SUPER
POWERS. I
| was able to delete any file that I could see, including ones that
were
| owned by root. Digging uncovered the fact that pure-ftpd runs
with
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|> | Now I have just one major league problem: when I logged in as one of
|> the
|> | users, to test the connections, I discovered that I had SUPER POWERS. I
|> | was able to delete any file that I could see, including ones that we
| Hi Greg,
|
| I tried your sequence, but it didn't seem to work. Or, perhaps it
worked
| and the PRIVSEP option doesn't do what I expect it to. Logging in
as a
| normal user gives that user root privileges.
|
| This seems pretty scary to me. Not so bad, since the user is
locked into
| his
John Almberg wrote:
I operate a server on which I am typically the only ssh user, but I do
provide a small number of users ftp access.
Each user has their own home directory. Currently all home directories
have read permission set for 'other'. This means if I log in as one
user, I can read an
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 05:16:48PM -0400, John Almberg wrote:
> I operate a server on which I am typically the only ssh user, but I
> do provide a small number of users ftp access.
>
> Each user has their own home directory. Currently all home
> directories have read permission set for 'other'
At 04:16 PM 7/31/2008, John Almberg wrote:
I operate a server on which I am typically the only ssh user, but I
do provide a small number of users ftp access.
Each user has their own home directory. Currently all home
directories have read permission set for 'other'. This means if I log
in as one
What ftp server software are you using?
For example, in proftpd, you simply add this line to /usr/local/etc/
proftpd.conf:
DefaultRoot ~
and everyone is "jailed" into his own directory.
It also seems the ftp daemon in the base system supports this
through /etc/ftpchroot.
If you are using
y ISP-Data
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I operate a server on which I am typically the only ssh user,
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