The File Transfer Protocol
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A secure way to confine FTP login users to a single directory
I needed to provide multiple users FTP logins, some able to write, some only to read, to a single FTP root directory. I very much wanted that they not see of the file system anything above that ...
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FTP timeout FIRST time
I'm using PureFTPd on MacOSX (Snow Leopard, not server version). When trying to access the FTP account from the outside via dyndns (e.g. using https://www.wormly.com/test_ftp_server) the connection ...
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VSFTPD Virtual User Group
Currently I have a Running vsftpd server in a Cent OS Machine with virtual users.
Users are authenticated using MySQL.
The users has all the permissions in their home directory and they are jailed ...
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Setting permissions with FTP
I'm having some issues setting up permissions for FTP. Read another thread on here regarding it, but I wasn't sure if it really matched what I needed.
Essentially, right now I've got the client's FTP ...
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How to access the Local FTP YUM repo from client Machine
I setup the FTP server on Machine A 192.168.1.105 and created the YUM repo. And placed following contents in it.
#vi rhel-localftp.repo
[rhel-localftp.rep]
name=bla bla bla
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FTP cannot connect - connection closed by server
I entered the hostname, username/password and port, it seemed to connect but then the connection was lost, what should I check for? See the log below:
Status: Resolving address of ...
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Implement ProFTPd server without chroot
Can I use ProFTPd without using a chroot jail (thereby preventing access to anything outside of the FTP root)? I have a requirement to have symlinks in my FTP source that point to locations outside of ...
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How to ensure FTPeS uses a secure connection?
From: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/FTPS
Explicit:
If a client does not request security, the FTPS server can either allow the client to continue insecure or refuse/limit the ...
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VSFTPD link to a folder in root folder
I have just setup the basic stuff for vsftpd. I got that working fine with root use thats all. I have also stupidly installed something to the root user home directory which I would like another user ...
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Will a account get locked while logging in FTP mode to a remote server whose password has already expired in UNIX
I have a FTP user id to a remote server, the password for which has expired.The account is getting locked if connection is being made in FTP mode to the server with the old(expired) password. Is ...
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CentOS - how to install vsftpd for specific username to have specific directory access only?
I have VSFTPD installed in CentOS. Where i have one username "lesstrust1", when the user login i want the user only can upload/download to this path /var/www/html/oxwall
$ yum install vsfptd
$ ...
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vsftpd: Passwordless authentication to different directory
I am configuring a vsftpd server and the requirements are:
I need a user resourcesadmin with home directory /var/www/resources with password authentication and FTP with write access (already done)
I ...
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Permissions for Apache and FTPd users
I'd like advice about permissions on directories and files on a web/ftp server.
Here is my situation:
Debian Server with those user:group
userme:userme for SSH
www-data:www-data for apache/php
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vsftpd on Ubuntu not obeying filesystem permissions
I'm trying to set an FTP upload to a web root on Ubuntu 12.04 using vsftp.
The user has a local account, username_ftp. I changed their home to their web root in /etc/passwd.
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ftp server log to include more information
I am implementing the ftp server on linux box (fedora 11, vsftpd). Everything works good so far but i need Ftp server log files to contain transfer rate information.
At the moment when I use "get " ...
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FTP server - directories
I have been playing around with several ftp servers and can't get the configuration I want.
I want to allow both anonymous and standard user login, user logins are fine with the default pure-ftpd ...
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Unable to connect by FTP to a Debian AWS server (ami-aa46b4c3)
I've launched an AWS instance with the image debian-6.0-squeeze-i386-server-20110323 (ami-aa46b4c3) and I am trying to set up a FTP server.
I have tried several ftp servers but nothing seems to work. ...
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How do i WGET an image from a webaddress and store it on a remote ftp location as a cronjob on dd-wrt
From a DD-WRT router I want to create a cron-job that wget's an image from a remote location. This image is to be passed on to a remote FTP server for storage.
The process is to be repeated every ...
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FTP connection is hanged
I want to connect to a Windows 2003 server from my unix box. But when I am trying to do a FTP connection to the server address I am getting "Connected to server address" message and after that it is ...
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Checksum on Network drive is really slow
I want to check if a bunch of files have copied without problem to a network drive. I am not able to ssh to the network drive, but I am able to mount it using FTP.
The number of files is about 220, ...
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Using Filezilla to upload files to remote server under a proxy server
I am using Filezilla to upload files to my web server. I am under a proxy server of my college. I edited FTP proxy in Filezilla Settings. However, it shows the following error :-
Status: Selected ...
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Linux Permissions vsftpd
I have mybb installed and running in /var/www/forums.
I have two users part of the www group, logan and www-data.
I have the recursive permissions of forums directory set to:
chmod -R 755 forums
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proftpd mod mysql
I've setuped a proftpd server on a distant host. I made it work in some simple way, actif mod, with unix user, blocking user in /var/www. It was working nice, but now I need the mod sql (package ...
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Is it possible to enter a port range in /etc/services?
I have a passive FTP server setup that accepts ftp-data connections on a specific set of ports, ie 50000-50100
In the /etc/services file, I found the ftp-data entries:
ftp-data 20/tcp # ...
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proftpd server not letting users in
I am using Virtualmin on CentOS 6.2. A user can't log in via ftp. It simply says authentication failed. I have set the password manually, and tried to log in but it always says authentication failed. ...
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VPS not replying on ftp port 21 using pure-ftpd
There is no response from my VPS when I connect to the ftp service on port 21. It's a Linux server with kloxo and pure-ftp. I have been using it without troubles from past 8 months. I installed ...
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debian lenny ftp not working?
I've installed ftp in my debian lenny virtual server with apt-get install ftp and it uses the archive ftp_0.17-18_amd64.deb. But when I type ftp command into my shell there isn't any response? When I ...
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vsftpd filezilla timout error
I have an vsftpd setup. When I try to upload a large number of files, a lot of files fail with a timeout error. After some analysis, I saw this pattern as follow before every error, but I don't know ...
