FTP (vsftpd) users config question

[msteele]

I believe I'm close to my goal. But I'm missing something.

I know how to create users, to access their apache directories. My problem is creating 2 or more users to access the same directory - and have permissions to modify files with their ftp clients.

So far, multi-user accounts can view the same directory, but they cannot upload anything.

Here's the breakdown of what I've done.

1. I've chown'd apache.apache to the directory I am using: /var/www/html/mysite.com
#chown -R apache.apache /var/www/html/mysite.com/

2. I created 2 new ftp users, and :
#useradd george -d /var/www/html/mysite.com/
#useradd johnny -d /var/www/html/mysite.com/

3. Added the new users in the chroot_list
#vi /etc/vsftpd.chroot_list

4. Ensured the new users only have specific access to /var/www/html/mysite.com/
#vi /etc/passwd

george: x :558:559::/var/www/html/mysite.com:sbin/nologin
johnny: x :559:560::/var/www/html/mysite.com:sbin/nologin

(as I understand "sbin/nologin" ensures this)

5. I assigned the new users to the apache group
#vi /etc/group

apache: x :48:root,george,johnny

6. restarted the service
#service vsftpd restart


So far, everythings good to go, except I cannot modify files with these new users. But, I can see all the files just fine.

Do I have a missing step somewhere? Does something need to be changed in the vsftpd.conf file?

Any help would be awesome!
thanks

[jaysunn]

Please run this and post the output:

ls -al /var/www/html/mysite.com/

Jaysunn

[aram535]

1. sbin/nologin is not a valid shell -- check /etc/shells to make sure it is listed and it actually exists. /sbin/nologin is probably what you want.

[[ The following is a bit advanced, so don't try it unless you know what each command does ]]

2. if there is nobody else accessing that directory you need to add the group permission to that directory:

# find /var/www/html/mysite.com -type d chmod -R g+rwx {} \;
# find /var/www/html/mysite.com -type f chmod -R g+rw {} \;

That will give the group permissions over the directory and group. To make sure all of the new files have group permissions you should set a sticky bit:

# chmod g+s /var/www/html/mysite.com

I hope that helps.