ftp with .... ?

[Joshua Gimer]

What user is your ftp daemon running as?

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Vasadi I. Claudiu Florin
<claudiu.vasadi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Apr 2009 03:53:09 +0300, Joshua Gimer <jgimer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Are you sure that the suid bit will not provide the functionality that
>> you require?
>
> It provides it, but only half of it. Did "chmod g+s /mnt" and "chmod u+s
> /mnt" but when I create a file with "ftpadmin" through a ftp the file has
> ftpadmin:wheel (Parent directory belongs to root:wheel). Maybe it cannot
> change to root ? That would be strainge, seing how samba can do it (then
> again samba has a module for this)
>
>> I would make sure that the proper user owns the directory
>
> They are
>
>> and then set its suid bit (chmod u+s /mnt/)
>
> Already did that.
>
>



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Thx
Joshua Gimer