Subject: [969] Problem with ftpaccess upload ownership/permission

From: [email-masked] (Paul Blair)
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 1994 14:54:51 -0800 (PST)

I set up wu-ftpd 2.4 on our firewall machine a bit ago.  It seems
to work fine, but one problem keeps anoying me.  The ftp directory is
nfs mounted from a seperate machine.  (This is under SunOS 4.1.3)
I have set up my ftpaccess file something like the following, so that 
some employees who want to maintain some upload areas can do so;

upload  /u/ftp  *                       no
upload  /u/ftp  /incoming               yes     ftp     ftp
upload  /u/ftp  /incoming/juggle        yes     barry   ftp
upload  /u/ftp  /incoming/specula       yes     jonl    ftp
upload  /u/ftp  /incoming/python        yes     brennan ftp

So... What happens is when someone uploads something, to one of the
subdirectories, I get a 0 length file owned by the owner specified in
ftpaccess.  I ran a trace on it, and it seems to open the file, chown
it, then switch owners back to ftp, realize it can't write to the file
and exit out.  Any hints as to what I might be doing wrong would be
greatly appreciated!

		Paul