Subject: SUMMARY: [guest dir creation]

From: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 98 12:51:29 -0500

My original question was "Why do my guest
users get this error: 530 foo: Permission denied.  (Upload)
when trying to create a directory?" The entry
in the ftpaccess file is:

upload  /ftp /incoming/test yes root prd 0660 nodirs

which should only disallow anonymous users from creating
directories. What I did to allow the guest users to create
dirs (and not the anonymous users) was to modify the entry
in the passwd file from:

guest:<password>:<UID>:<GID>:Guest ftp user:/ftp/./incoming:/bin/ftponly

to 

guest:<password>:<UID>:<GID>:Guest ftp user:/ftp/incoming/./:/bin/ftponly

The only difference that I have noticed for the guest users is that when
they log in and do a pwd, they get this: 

257 "/" is current directory.

when they used to get this:

257 "/incoming" is current directory.

Which really doesn't effect the chroot'd environment at all.

Bob Morse
System administrator
American Mathematical Society