Subject: Re: Owner of Incoming files under Solaris..?

From: Yanming PENG <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 95 22:32:20 WETDST

> 
> First, thanks to Yamming for his answers, sorry that I have to keep on 
> with that thread but we need to get this running.. :(
> 
> On Wed, 11 Oct 1995, Yanming PENG wrote:
> 
> > > I did a "chmod +r" on ~ftp/pub/Linux/Incoming to re-establish read
> > > permissions on the incoming dir (all other dirs have read permission) and
> > > I still get files owned by ftp:ftp . I even tried to have the files owned
> > 
> > I think ~ftp/pub, ~ftp/pub/Linux also need public read permission.
> 
> Yes, the is what they are currently set to.
>  
> > > by root:daemon (who is in ~ftp/etc/passwd and ~ftp/etc/group) by specifing
> > > it in the "upload" line in ftpaccess because i thought it could be a
> > > shadow password problem but it did not work. I have tried everything I 
> > > could think of. Is there anyone else using Solaris 2.4 + wu-ftpd and who 
> > > has an "incoming" dir with the ability to change the owner of uploaded 
> > > files w/o problems? Thanks a lot for reading this.. :)
> > 
> > I had the problem with Linux. If no public read permission, all files
> > owned by ftp.bin and 664. Put back the public read permission, owner
> > and permission are OK.
> 
> I tried this but it still would not work...
> 
Your problem looks like that FTP users upload files on an NFS mounted fs,
which is not given root privilege (i.e. using root_squash in /etc/exports).
The owner/permission problem was on beta 4. I think beta 5 has already fixed
it. Beta 6 has surely fixed it. I just tested it.

> On the other side, things are running well on the Linux machine but that
> machine has beta 5 and the Sun machine has beta 4. I don't know if this
> could make a difference but I will try to install it anyway today.. :) I 
> just hope it _is_ going to work better..
> 
> Vincent, STEP administration.
> [email-masked]
> 

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