Is there some particular reason you can not set up a personal account for your friend and have him/her/them build the site into a public_html directory within that account? This technique would seem to simplify matters considerably if it is possible on your system. HTH and have a _great_ weekend! On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 08:07:13PM -0500, Gregory Nowak wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all. > > I will be temporarily hosting a couple of web sites for a friend of > mine. Let's say that all his stuff will be located under > /var/www/htdocs/sites. My friend has a regular login account on my > system, which we'll refer to as user. What I'd like to do, is to set > things up, so that whatever he uploads to /var/www/htdocs/sites via > ftp will be immediately accessible via the web, without my > intervention. He should of course have read/write access to > /var/www/htdocs/sites and subdirectories, so that he can replace his > contents in those directories. Also, the rest of the world should have > execute permission to the directories, and read-only access to the > files for web browsing purposes. > > What I at first wanted to do, was to give him a totally different user > name and password, as a virtual user on my ftp server. However, proftpd > seems to have no virtual user facility. > > So, what I've settled for doing is to give him ftp access as user, > but with a password different from that for his regular account (which > seems to be doable with proftpd's UserPassword directive), and chroot > his ftp transfers to /home/user/sites. I would then also have a > symlink /var/www/htdocs/sites pointing to /home/user/sites. > > My main problem here is that of ownership and > permissions. Specifically, how can I ensure that whatever he uploads > via ftp to ~user/sites will have ownership of root.adm (which is the > ownership of everything in /var/www/htdocs on my system), and > permissions of 755 for the directories he creates, and 644 for the > files he uploads? > > In case some of you are wondering, yes, I could do things via sftp, > but using plain old ftp is going to be more convenient for him. Thanks > in advance for any ideas. > > Greg > > P.S. In what context in proftpd.conf would I place the UserPassword > and chroot directives, so that they would both apply to the same thing > (I.E. chroot user into /home/user/sites)? > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFBNnJB7s9z/XlyUyARAhCcAKC/xif4qNd/GBtEDu+DWHVFreQ2CwCfWlh/ > 74M7Evb/xM+spa6AJtH+suA= > =T39l > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Ralph. N6BNO. Wisdom comes from central processing, not from I/O. rreid at sunset.net http://personalweb.sunset.net/~rreid Opinions herein are either mine or they are flame bait. CIRCLE AREA = _pi * r ^ 2
