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

I think your chances of finding anyone here who has installed/run that very same ftp server and who is familiar with its configuration are low indeed. Asking on a more general Linux-related list frequented by system administrators would give you better informed answers. 


On 2/2/19 11:54 PM, Christopher Gilland via orca-list wrote:
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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