Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4348 mails)

[Verdi March <cincaipatron@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Anders,

nice trick. Thanks.

Regards,
Verdi

On Tuesday 01 October 2002 17:04, Anders Johansson wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 October 2002 10.57, Verdi March wrote:
> > Hm,
> >
> > Your scenario work if anonymous couldn't upload.
> >
> > By default the root of anonymous is "/windows/d". The anonymous
> > user's - "ftp" - home directory is "/windows/d/sources". Your 
suggested
> > scenario work if the user ftp can only 'read' into "/windows/d".
> >
> > But if I tried to make user "ftp" has 'write' access -- by making 
user
> > "ftp" part of group "users" -- the anonymous login will not work.
> > =====
> > 500 OOPS: vsftpd: refusing to run with writable anonymous root
> > ftp: Login failed.
> > =====
> >
> > No wonder this thing is called 'very secure' ftpd.
> 
> Is it necessary for you to have the windows partition mounted on 
/windows/d? 
> If it isn't, you could create a directory under /usr/local/ftp and 
mount it 
> there. That way the root (usr/local/ftp) isn't writable, but your 
windows dir 
> is
> 
> //Anders