VSFTPD setup not complete

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Hello,

The VSFTPD article does not explain how to complete the setup for web servers.

Most of the users will be using it with Apache/nginx/etc. so it will be really useful if you could write an article explaining how to set that up, what are appropriate permissions etc.

Until then - I would really appreciate if someone could post the setup here, as I’m struggling with it now. The web is full of resources but none of them offer a universal solution and most of them are outdated.

Thanks!

Jonathan Tittle · Answer

VSFTPD, and any other FTP solution is going to upload / chroot to the users home directory, so if, when you created a user, you set their home directory to /home/username, then that’s the directory that will be used by vsftpd.

You can use useradd -d to set the home directory for new users, i.e.

useradd -d /path/to/upload/folder username

So if your username was batric, for example, and you wanted the user to upload to /var/www or /var/www/batric, then you’d use one of the following:

useradd -d /var/www batric

- OR -

useradd -d /var/www/batric batric

You can use usermod to change the directory of an existing user.

usermod -d /var/www batric

usermod -d /path/to/any/directory batric

usermod -d /home/batric

…etc :-).

batricbatric · Answer

That’s not the point of my question.

I want this to work with a webserver and to allow users to upload files to /var/www/ and not to /home/[user]/files

fs · Answer

Well, enable LocalUsers in VSFtpd, chroot them into their homes and you’re most likely done - short version, sorry :-)

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