Fedora 3: Trying To Setup Ftp/http Server - Adding users problem

I am helping on developing an Intranet for my school. We have a server with Fedora Core 3 installed and Apache. I got FTP working too but root access is denied as default. But we have a problem. We would like users to be able to have accounts for their pages, but we don't want to give root FTP access. When we go to http://SERVERIP/~account, we get an access denied page. Anyone have any tips? Thanks! [N]F

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What FTP server are you running?

If you're using vsftp then you'll need to edit the configuration files found in /etc/vsftpd and allow the users you want to give access too. You would also setup chroot in the configuration file to their user directory.

Usernames are case sensitive on apache, although I believe Fedora Core 3 only accepted lowercase usernames and changed this in FC4.

I've written quite a lot on setting up User Directories for Fedora Core, you could look at that first and see how you go with it, if you have any trouble just reply back.


Cheers,


MC

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Thanks for the info, but you're a little bit too late. The tech I am working with re-installed Fedora Core 3 to start over. He made a user and configured httpd.conf to point to /home/user/www/ as the web root and modified mostly everything to point there.

Today we finally got FTP working correctly, but had some issues with uploading. Like any file created while logged in as root on the server gave a "Forbidden" message when the file was tried to be accessed on another machine in the tech office over the network. But if we FTPed a file, the permissions were correctly set. Then we got Perl working after we had to find the darn mod_perl which was hiding.

Well, I'll take any Fedora Core 3 tips you have because it seems I am growing used to it. I have been working with Linux so much this week I have almost forgotten how to use Windows, lol. Hit me with anything. We're bound to run into more problems. Such as how to speed things up because it is an old server (333 MHz Pentium 2, we'll be needing a new server soon because that won't be able to stand upto the constant network traffic).

Oh, one more thing. If you have any tips on how we can secure it, please share! Right now, there is a gaping hole into the server. FTP is in-secure, I am just waiting for a hacker to break into our network and hack right into that server.... We really need to secure it!

Thanks!

[N]F

 

 

 

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