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Mr.Wang from Next Door
Asked: 2016-03-24 19:49:25 +0800 CST

Run pureftp server as non-root user

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I am running pureftp in docker container as non-root user file_app.

Here is the permission I assigned

chown -R file_app:file_app /etc/pure-ftpd
chown -R file_app:file_app /etc/ssl/private
chown -R file_app:file_app /var/log/pure-ftp
chown -R file_app:file_app /usr/share/lintian/overrides/pure-ftpd
chown -R file_app:file_app /usr/share/nginx # FTP HOME DIR

When I try to start /usr/sbin/pure-ftpd as user file_app, I get this error

Unable to start a standalone server: Permission denied

When I start as root, everything works

How to run pure-ftpd as non-root user?

pureftpd

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You might need to change the Bind line in your /etc/pure-ftpd config file to listen on a port which doesn't require root privileges, e.g.:

    Bind 127.0.0.1,2121

    Hope this helps!

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