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<p>Created page with &quot;== setting up vsftpd users and groups == &lt;pre&gt; Install vsftpd apt-get install vsftpd 4) Create a user group and shared directory. In this case, use /home/ftp-users and a user...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>== setting up vsftpd users and groups ==<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> Install vsftpd<br /> <br /> apt-get install vsftpd<br /> 4) Create a user group and shared directory. In this case, use /home/ftp-users and a user group name of ftp-users for the remote users<br /> [root@bigboy tmp]# groupadd ftp-users<br /> [root@bigboy tmp]# mkdir /home/ftp-docs<br /> 5) Make the directory accessible to the ftp-users group.<br /> <br /> [root@bigboy tmp]# chmod 750 /home/ftp-docs<br /> [root@bigboy tmp]# chown root:ftp-users /home/ftp-docs<br /> 6) Add users, and make their default directory /home/ftp-docs<br /> [root@bigboy tmp]# useradd -g ftp-users -d /home/ftp-docs user1<br /> [root@bigboy tmp]# useradd -g ftp-users -d /home/ftp-docs user2<br /> [root@bigboy tmp]# useradd -g ftp-users -d /home/ftp-docs user3<br /> [root@bigboy tmp]# useradd -g ftp-users -d /home/ftp-docs user4<br /> [root@bigboy tmp]# passwd user1<br /> [root@bigboy tmp]# passwd user2<br /> [root@bigboy tmp]# passwd user3<br /> [root@bigboy tmp]# passwd user4<br /> /etc/vsftpd.conf - configuration file<br /> <br /> Local_enable=yes<br /> write_enable=Yes<br /> chroot_list_enable=Yes - this jails users on the list to their home dir<br /> chroot_list_file=/etc/vsftpd.chroot_list<br /> <br /> if the vsftpd.chroot_list file does not exist then create it and add the users to that list<br /> <br /> To add a user to a specific group<br /> <br /> usermod -G name-of-group -a name-of-user<br /> <br /> **/ must be applied otherwise you won&#039;t be able to save to dir<br /> <br /> chgrp -R ftp-users /var/www/site <br /> change the ownership of this directory to group &#039;ftp-users&#039; and everything inside of it (-R = recursive). The person issuing this command must own all the files or it will fail.<br /> <br /> chmod -R g+rw /var/www/site<br /> give group read write access to this directory, and everything inside of it (-R = recursive)<br /> <br /> listing all groups<br /> <br /> cat /etc/group<br /> <br /> Listing groups a current user belongs to<br /> <br /> groups robert<br /> <br /> *** Restart system or vftpd service after changes otherwise it permissions won&#039;t work<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;</div>

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