Re: Linux FTP server help!

On Nov 24, 9:25 am, habibielwa7id <fouad...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Nov 23, 5:11 pm, jlm25 <jlm...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I am very keen to set up a linux FTP server for my office to use on
projects but while i've been testing the various options i am yet to
find a solution that doesn't involve a large amount of administration.

I would like to have a group set up for each project that allows read
access to all users folders and, as new users join, will let me update
the group as a whole and not on an individual basis.

Is this possible and are there solutions that i can use either a GUI
interface , web based interface or simple config files?

-You may use vsftp, It's easy to configure through the command line,
And also there are many GUI administration tools you may use I think
like webmin or others,
I may suggest some thing else and already installed almost on every
Linux distro, sftp, The Linux ssh implementation supports secure ftp
transfers with ssh daemon without the need to install extra packages,
And the users can connect from Windows systems easily with winscp or
alternatives, and it's support drag and drop, synchronizations and
many other good features,
-You want the groups to control the directories they have and the sup
directories? So I suggest you use the set group id, It's a good
feature on Linux permissions with give the same permission the parent
directories have to the sub directories, And if you want the owners
only of the files to delete only there files which they created use
sticky bit,
I will try to give you some help and you may search and complete the
work, We will suppose that the group name is agroup,
groupadd agroup
mkdir /home/agroup
chown agroup:agroup /home/agroup
gpasswd -a joe agroup
"Note: Some Linux ditributions don't have the gpasswd command, But
there are alternatives"
chmod 2775 /home/agroup
This will give the group members read and write support to the
directory and the sub directories,
Regards,

Many thanks for all the comments, i will give this a try and let you
know how i get on. Don't suppose anyone is an expert with NSLu2's at
all? I'm trying to set up x11 on it (it has no screen output itself)
that i can run a desktop session on that allows me to log on and off
remotely as and when i need it?
.

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