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