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Asked: 2010-05-25 11:19:23 +0800 CST

How Do I Configure ProFTP for Website Update?

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I am running Ubuntu Server 9.10 with ProFTPD, and I also have Webmin.

I have DNS setup for 3 domains, mail setup for 3 domains, as well as Apache2 setup for those domains. They work great.

Now I want to give FTP access for an incoming user, but point them to /var/www/[domain] and have them come in as something like user "ftpuser" but want this to translate to user "www-data" so that web permissions will be correct.

What is the technique to do this?

ftp ubuntu proftpd ubuntu-9.10

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  1. Best Answer

    Groups and SGID. user1 would have group membership in www-data and you would set everything group writable under [domain]. Set user1's home directory to /var/www/[domain]. You would also want to set the SGID on [domain] and all directories under it, which would cause permissions to be inherited. (g+s)

    Be aware, user1 would have access to all Web content. You could use a different group to limit the scope of the access.

    SSH (SFTP/scp) is recommended for user authentication as opposed to FTP, as the authentication credentials will be transmitted in plaintext with FTP.

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  2. if you are familiar with webmin. why not using virtualmin & usermin ? both can make it easy for you. & based on webmin + stable. http://www.virtualmin.com/

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