Topic: How do I allow a web designer to FTP to my web site

[Rob Ferguson]

I am no web designer, so I have hired someone outside my company to do the web design.  They need to be able to FTP into my e-smith server web site to upload the web pages they have designed...how do I give them access?  I turned on Public access for FTP, but that doesn't seem to help.

Rob

[Michael Maxwell]

Hi Rob,

The only user that has write access via ftp and files sharing to upload/edit a web site is the user "admin" and giving out the password for the admin's account  is "not" an option. Other users only have read access.

You may need to edit /etc/proftpd.conf and add a user called say "webmaster" to the e-smith box.

Thanks, Michael

[Charlie Brady]

Michael Maxwell wrote:

> You may need to edit /etc/proftpd.conf and add a user called
> say "webmaster" to the e-smith box.

Right at the top of /etc/proftpd.conf it reads:

#------------------------------------------------------------
# DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It is updated automatically by the
# e-smith server and gateway software. Instead, modify the source
# template in the /etc/e-smith/templates-custom directory. For
# more information, see http://www.e-smith.org.
....

Need I say more?

Regards

Charlie

P.S. Actually, it says: "... modify the source template in
/etc/e-smith/templates directory", but that is an obsolete comment.

[Michael Maxwell]

yes and im sure that rob will work that out all by his self..

Michael

[Rob Ferguson]

Thanks... that's a big help.  I wasn't even able to ftp in as admin at first... I got a "connection refused" message, but then I realized that my DSL router wasn't forwarding ftp requests on to my e-smith server.  A quick search of the manual showed me how to forward that port, and I was off and running.

Regards

Rob