FTP Permissions

[tswaibel]

Greetings everyone.

Recently had someones account transferred to a server of mine through WHM, now all of their directories are giving a permission denied error when trying to upload. All directories appear to have the appropriate permissions, although won't allow uploads.

Is there a script to run or solution to this FTP permission error

Help is appreciated.

Thanks.

[Marty]

Have you checked the ownership of the files and directories?

[BrightAdmin]

Hi tswaibel,

As suggested by Marty, try to check the ownership of the files and directories and make sure that any chrooting is applied for that user.

Regards,

[nappa]

How would I do this ? And what would I need to do isf there was something wrong ? Do I chmod just the directory /homeusername with usermae:username ?
Or all files under it too ?

[anand]

Originally posted by nappa
How would I do this ? And what would I need to do isf there was something wrong ? Do I chmod just the directory /homeusername with usermae:username ?
Or all files under it too ?

Just do this

chown username.username /home/USERNAME/public_html -R
chown username.nobody /home/USERNAME/public_html

This will solve your permission probs. I have seen this too many times and the above always solves it.

[nappa]

It didn't do much at all. Is it username.username or username:username ? Becuase I tried the one with " . " and that didn't do anything at all. No change. When I did the " : " it fave me a forbidden error. I ended up doing something I'm not sure I'm supposed to.

Can you tell me what the chmod value for those files and folders should should be ? Especailly the /user folder and home/public_html

Thanks

[anand]

Originally posted by nappa
It didn't do much at all. Is it username.username or username:username ? Becuase I tried the one with " . " and that didn't do anything at all. No change. When I did the " : " it fave me a forbidden error. I ended up doing something I'm not sure I'm supposed to.

Its a ".". You need to see what permissions it shows after doing this.

Can you tell me what the chmod value for those files and folders should should be ? Especailly the /user folder and home/public_html

/usr folder is root.root

/home/public_html should be user.nobody
However all the files inside the public_html should be user.user

Thanks

np

[nappa]

Sorry about the previous email - I was asking about what value the CHMOD would be - like 666, 640, 755 ... like those .

and I was asking for the /home/user and and files inside it (those other folders, and .something values), and /home/user/public_html folder and /home/user/public_html
/home/user/public_html/files

[anand]

Originally posted by nappa
Sorry about the previous email - I was asking about what value the CHMOD would be - like 666, 640, 755 ... like those .

and I was asking for the /home/user and and files inside it (those other folders, and .something values), and /home/user/public_html folder and /home/user/public_html
/home/user/public_html/files

/home/user 711
/home/user/public_html 750

Inside public_html keep whatever permissions you need for the files there. Its basically web readible folder, so act accordingly.