Re: [orca-list] FTP server: I'm obviously doing something wrong, although probably am on the right track.

[Christopher Gilland <clgilland07 gmail com>]

What do you mean other users? I'm trying to do this by only allowing 
anonymous access for now.

I did Google a bit more, especially on the clue you gave. I didn't 
however know this was a Blues Clues game. Pardon my sarcasm.

Here's a hint for you in return.

sudo rm -R /Hashtag/I Have shingles and am very sick and tired, I just 
need a direct answer for now./*

Again, with all due respect, I don't mean this rudely. I appreciate the 
help, but as I said, the more I am reading, the more confused I'm becoming.

You say I may have to exhaust other resources. Is it not OK to ask here? 
Perhaps I am not understanding the meaning for this list? If I'm not, 
then fill
me in please. What am I missing.

Again, I don't mean any of this to sound nor be rude in nature. If I've 
broken guidelines by asking, then tell me such.

I'm not afraid to read documentation, but I'm tired of doing so, getting 
stuck, asking for help, then people just saying to me keep reading, when 
I've
clearly stated I'm caaaaan? fiew'w'w'w'wzed! How clear does that 
statement have to be?

Anyway, enough drama from me. You, I think, get my point. Nonetheless, 
thanks for your attempt to help; I know you meant/mean well at trying, 
and that's
what ultimately counts.

Chris.

On 02/02/2019 11:43 PM, Andy Borka via orca-list wrote:
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You may need to seek other resources to get your ftp server up and 
running. As a slight hint though, try adding your ftp users to the ftpd 
group. Much
the same way multiuser webservers add the approved web server users to 
the www-data group.

On 2/2/19 11:14 PM, Christopher Gilland via orca-list wrote:
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So, my gut feeling on this is, I'm probably very very close to having 
this correctly working. I just have one issue, but don't exactly know 
where I'm going
wrong, and after reading the docs, I'm still not able to get things 
properly configured, and therefore would like to seek some help from one 
of you who're
way more experienced with Linux than I am at this point.

So, I did an apt-get, and installed in Ubuntu, VSFTPD.

I set local users to not be able to log in, but did set the directoive 
in vsftpd.conf to allow anonymous users.

I noticed that the

anon_root

directive, IE, anon_root=/var/ftp wasn't present in the conf file. I 
therefore went ahead and inserted it.

Also, this directory wasn't created when installing the pkg, although 
according to the docs I've read online, it should a been, unless I 
misunderstood.


/home/ftp wasn't created either, which I've seen references to.

Anyway, I figured, my home user isn't going to have write access 
permissions to the /var directory, therefore, I did:

sudo mkdir /var/ftp

Then I declared that in the conf file as the anon_root.

Now, that worked perfectly. Here however is where I'm getting really stuck.

In my home directory, /home/chris

I have the subdirectory which comes already created upon installing 
Ubuntu called Music. So, /home/chris/Music.

What the ultimate goal is here is, I'm a professional musician who 
writes my own music. I'd like to give anonymous access for people to 
download my music.
No, I'm not distributing illegal music; I'm not stupid!

Right now, the only thing in /home/chris/Music is my own material. 
Nothing more.

So, again, I figured, I don't have permissions to write to anything as 
the chris user in /var. Therefore, I figured I'm going to need super 
user rights
to do this.

Therefore I did the following after creating the /var/ftp directory with 
sudo:

sudo ln -s /home/chris/Music Music

My thought was, create a soft link, since hard links cannot link to 
directories. And, I figured do this with sudo, as again, I probably 
otherwise wouldn't
have permissions to do anything with modifying the /var directory, let 
alone the /var/ftp directory. That might partially be where I went 
wrong, I'm not
totally sure. I'm still really not fully getting how ownership and 
permissions totally work in Linux, so forgive me.

Now, without sudo, if I do:

cd /var/ftp/Music

That does work, and if I then do an ls on that, I do show all the stuff 
which is actually in /home/chris/Music. So, I know my soft link 
definitely did
work.

However now, if I go to Filezilla on my Windows machine, log in 
anonymously to the server, I do see that one thing... "Music", but as 
soon as I try to
open up the ddirectory by hitting enter on it from the list view, I get 
a toast notification that states that 1 transfer failed, but it doesn't 
really
give any detail as to why! it failed.

I suspect, though not positive, that this has something to do with the 
fact that chris owns /home/chris/Music, and not the user who is needed 
for the ftp
server, let alone the anonymous user logging in.

I have the vsftpd.conf set to not croot users in their home directories, 
and I also have it set to allow access to local directories on the machine.

I know this isn't really secure doing this, but just to see if it was a 
permissions thing, I decided I'd change the permissions on the 
/home/chris/Music
directory just for giggles, to see if that would help. I had no 
intentions of keeping it this way.

chmod 755 /home/chris/Music

The only thing I can think is, to open the directory, you'd need 
execute, therefore that should a been 777 not 755.

Doing this though isn't helping.

Was I wrong in creating the soft link in /var/ftp to /home/chris/Music? 
And further, were there places I used sudo where it really wasn't 
necessary?

Basically, all I'm wanting is, when the anonymous user logs in, I want 
them to see a folder called Music. When they go there, I actually in all 
actulality
want it taking them to /home/chris/Music, and I only want them to be 
able to download, but not upload.

I feel I'm on the right track, as far as my theories on the 
permissions/ownerships, but I just don't quite know enough to understand 
where I went wrong.
Reading docs online about file and directory permissions is only 
confusing me more than it is helping.

I do suffer from a mild learning disability, and have been classified on 
the spectrum of being incredibly mildly mentally challenged in some 
areas, so
please be patient with me. I really do want to learn this. I love 
Ubuntu, and feel I'm so dang close to having this. I'm actually very 
very proud of myself
for what so far I have! learned all on my own. I never suspected I'd do 
as well with this as I have.

Chris.

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