Subject: Re: Still getting error 553, any other suggestions?

From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 07:56:16 +0200

rh> 
rh> 
rh> My problem is:
rh> % ftp ftp
rh> [edit, logged in as anonymous]
rh> Remote system type is UNIX.
rh> Using binary mode to transfer files.
rh> ftp> ls
rh> 200 PORT command successful.
rh> 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
rh> [edit]
rh> drwx-wx-wt   2 root      wheel     512 Jul 16 12:04 in.coming
rh> [...]
rh> ftp> cd in.coming
rh> 250 CWD command successful.
rh> ftp> put blah
rh> local: blah remote: blah
rh> 200 PORT command successful.
rh> 553 Could not determine cwdir: Permission denied.
rh> 

I think the ftp account needs read permission on the in.coming directory. Try
a chmod o+r on in.coming. The files under in.coming will be unreadable because
of the 0600 line in ftpacces, so there is no real harm in letting your users
see whats there.

rh> 
rh> Thanks,
rh> -Rusty
rh> 

Hope this helps,

Ronald.