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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers New user to own files made by root? Post 302957402 by alanford on Saturday 10th of October 2015 09:41:28 AM
Old 10-10-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
What group is /var/www assigned to? Make marco belong to that group as well.
And, of course, chmod /var/www accordingly.
Hi, thank you for answer,
/var/www/html folder belongs to the user "apache/www-data" and to the group "root".
therefore, I assigned user proftpd (marco, whatever) to the group root and after that I tried to create folder and files, I could do it only in html folder, not outside of it. that's what I wanted.
to change files everywhere, i can use sftp instead of ftp, sftp let me to login as root and change and create files anywhere in the system. I tried it now with winscp and filezilla and it works. when I login as proftpd I can change files only in /var/www/html

for people who need the same solution, use next commands, just change proftpd with your parameters, marco, proftpd, anything, adapt it to your case:
Code:
# if you want to list all groups in your system:
cut -d: -f1 /etc/group
ls -ld html #to check information about folder html
usermod -a -G root proftpd # to assign user proftpd to the group root
# you can check it then with command:
id proftpd # in my case the result:
uid=109(proftpd) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
id -Gn proftpd #another method to check which group belong user proftpd, in my case result was:
root
chmod -R g+w html #to allow proftpd from the group to create new directories and files inside of folder html.

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ftptop

ftptop(1)						      General Commands Manual							 ftptop(1)

NAME

       ftptop - display running status on proftpd server connections

SYNOPSIS

       ftptop

DESCRIPTION

       The ftptop command displays the current status of FTP sessions in a continuously updating top like format.

OPTIONS

       -A	   Filter the display to show sessions that are authenticating.

       -a	   Filter the display to hide sessions that are authenticating.

       -D	   Filter the display to show sessions that are downloading.

       -S	   Specify the ServerName for a specific virtual host.	If used, ftptop will only show sessions for the given virtual host.

       -d	   Specify  the delay, in seconds, between display refreshes.  The default is 2 seconds.  Only values between 0 and 15 seconds are
		   accepted.

       -f	   Specify the full path to proftpd's run-time scoreboard file (configured via the ScoreboardFile directive in proftpd.conf).	If
		   proftpd's  default  directory has been changed via this directive, ftptop must either be recompiled or this option must be used
		   in order to find proftpd's scoreboard.  -h Display a short usage description, including all available options.

       -I	   Filter the display to show sessions that are idle.

       -i	   Filter the display to hide sessions that are idle.

       -U	   Filter the display to show sessions that are uploading.

       -V	   Print out the version of ftptop and quit.

       While ftptop is running, hit the 'q' key to quit.  The 't' key toggles between display modes.  Currently there are two display modes:  nor-
       mal and transfer speed modes.

FILES

       /usr/bin/ftptop
       /var/run/proftpd.scoreboard

AUTHORS

       ProFTPD is written and maintained by a number of people, full credits can be found on http://www.proftpd.org/credits.html

SEE ALSO

       inetd(8),ftp(1),proftpd(8),ftpwho(1),ftptop(1),ftpshut(8)

       Full documentation on ProFTPD, including configuration and FAQs, is available at http://www.proftpd.org/

       For help/support, try the ProFTPD mailing lists, detailed on http://www.proftpd.org/lists.html

       Report bugs at http://bugs.proftpd.org/

								    March 2003								 ftptop(1)
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