VSFTPD setup not complete

February 20, 2013 5.6k views
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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 The web is full of resources but none of them offer a universal solution and most of them are outdated.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!
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fs February 20, 2013
Well, enable LocalUsers in VSFtpd, chroot them into their homes and you're most likely done - short version, sorry :-)
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batricbatric February 20, 2013
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
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jtittle1 February 21, 2013
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 :-).
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