UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello, : )

I have a remote access to the server that hosts my joomla, and it does not have cpanel.
So I have to do everything manually.

I need to have an FTP account to the httpdocs folder because I need to put these info in the config file of joomla (to allow file uploading ...etc)


So, I googled, and found this:




But I have 2 questions:
1. Shouldn't there be a step to add a password to the account?

2. Step 4 is confusing, it it for adding a password or adding a user to the group?
If it is for both, them wheere should I write down the password? is it instead of -a?

3. path/to/your/web/directory
should I directly write /httpdocs or should I put the whole path from root/....etc

I'm really new to Linux.

Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.

1. Yes, run "passwd <userame>" as root user will do that for you.

2. Yes, it is not how I would do it, I would just edit /etc/group and add the user to that group's line preceded by a comma if users are already in that group, the user will have to log off and back on again to see the new group membership, or take a look at:
How To: UNIX Add A User To A Group

3. Yes.

HTH

Thanks Tony for the quick reply.

1. So after I finish I should run this:
passwd <userame>
Where should I put the password?
Like this:
passwd <userame> mypassword
?

2. I'm reading the article, Thanks.
But I think I'll be back with questions.

3. Yes, mean the whole path, or just the directory "httpdocs"?

Thanks again

1. No the passwd command will ask you for the password twice after hitting the enter key, providing a password as a command line parameter is not good security practice and does no work with the passwd command.

3. Sorry, yes, the whole path.

Hi Tony.

Everything was Ok until this step:

gpasswd -a <username> <groupname>

I wrote it exactly as it is:
gpasswd -a myusername thegroup

but it gave me an error message that this command is not right, or something like that. :S

Is there any other command I can use?
My server uses Suse11 a.

Thanks.

If you don't have that command, install it. If you do but it doesn't work, tell us what the error actually says.

I admit I have never heard of gpasswd, I would either edit /etc/group or add the user to the secondary group when caliing useradd, that is -G <secondarygroup>.

According to this article:
http://www.suse.de/za/private/support/online_help/howto/secure_webserv/index.html
gpasswd(1) should already be installed on your SUSE installation.