Topic: Setting up an incoming ftp directory

[Mike Stoddart]

I've created the following directory:

/home/e-smith/files/primary/files/incoming

But what permissions should it have to allow anonymous ftp into it?? And which user should own it?

Currently I have:

total 4
drwxr-s---   4 admin    shared       1024 Jun 20 22:34 .
drwxr-xr-x   5 root     root         1024 Jan 26 13:17 ..
drwxrwsrwx   2 nobody   shared       1024 Jun 20 22:34 incoming
drwxrwsr-x   6 nobody   shared       1024 Jun 20 22:23 pub


But I cant do any anonymous uploads. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

[Carl Milloshewski]

Mike Stoddart wrote:

> I've created the following directory:
>
> /home/e-smith/files/primary/files/incoming
>
> But what permissions should it have to allow anonymous ftp into
> it?? And which user should own it?

Let me quote from the the remote access section in the web based interface.
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You can also control FTP write access for the admin and user accounts on your E-smith Server and Gateway. (Note that write access is never permitted via anonymous FTP or via the information bay accounts.)
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This is do to the fact that almost 99%(not an exact percentage) of the root compromises on ftp servers are used using write access.


> But I cant do any anonymous uploads. Any help is appreciated.
See above, that's why