I need help...

I have proftpd installed on suse 9.1, and the proftpd.conf file is configured correctly as far as I can tell. I have a user that needs "full permissions" on a particular directory and every directory beneath it. What's the proper way to assign these permissions?

Any ideas welcome...

Hi Josh! You would probably want to do something like:
<Directory /home/youruser/userdir/*>
<Limit ALL>
AllowUser username
</Limit>
</Directory>

Hm... that's what I thought, so that's what I did. *bangs head* All well time to call in the bigger guns... Thanks!!!

proftpd is pretty powerful in that you can configure so many different things with it. Are there any "permissions" that your user is allowed to do right now or is everything denied? I thought that proftpd's default was to allow full permissions to all users in their home directory.

Well, I did too. BTW, does proftpd work off of it's own set of permissions, or do I need to have any local permissions worked in as well (chmod, chown)? This has me stumped. Right now I have it setup for virtual hosting and have full read and write permissions for a specific folder when a user logs in. However, it does not send them to the specified folder, but rather their home folder. Then upon browsing to the specified folder, they have read but not write permissions.

*shrugs*

proftpd seems great, but it'd be even better if I could get it to work. *kicks linux*

You would need to have the appropriate permissions set for the user to write if that is what you want, otherwise, there will be permission denied errors. Have you tried having the user login through SSH and write to the directory? This will rule out any proftpd issues.

Okay so the system permissions and the proftpd permissions must be "synced"... *bangs head*

See... it's dumb for you to have to set so many things in so many different places. It'd be alot easier if proftpd just handled the whole permissions thing instead of having to handle it in TWO different places.

*kicks linux harder*

Well... that was it. Once I chowned and chgrped the dir, all is well. Thanks Cheryl!!!

P.S. - Congrats on your promotion to Development

Thanks Josh!
I'm glad to hear it is working now