FYI Without going to virtual hosting this seems to be the best way to set up a webmaster to populate a webspace: CREATE WEBMASTER USER/GROUP useradd webmaster passwd webmaster CHROOT WEBMASTER Uncomment the following from the /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf file: chroot_list_enable=YES chroot_list_file=/etc/vsftpd/chroot_list Create /etc/vsftpd/chroot_list file and add the following: webmaster RESTART FTP /sbin/service vsftpd restart MOVE HTML DIRECTORY OUT OF THE WAY mv /var/www/html /var/www/html.original CREATE A SYMBOLIC LINK BETWEEN THE HTML AND WEBMASTERS DIRECTORY cd /var/www ln -s /home/webmaster html I know this forum might not be the right place for it but since I started the thread, I thought I might as well finish it. Best Regards, Hedgehog On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 23:07 -0800, Steven Pierce wrote: > > On 11/5/2006 at 10:11 PM Viitasaari wrote: > > >Hi...I am a newbie at this forum so my question may be obvious to many > >of you. > > > >I have Apache, FTP and Telnet working on my Fedora 5 box. Currently, > >the only user on the box is root. > > > >What I would like to do next is set it up so that the webmaster can > >populate the webspace using ftp. > > > > This is more of a Unix question, but you need to create a user for your > FTP software that is webmaster, webguy, webwhatever and then allow > that user to put files into the directory that you set up for Apache to > look to for HTML files. > > Apache does not care much about this, it just looks into the space that > you allow it to. > > I would not use telnet, that is really not very secure. If this in an "Internal" network, > maybe. Otherwise I would a SSH, or something that Sftp that is secure. > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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