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VSFTPD - same upload folder, different users?

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http://www.linuxquestions.org – I have many clients uploading to the same directory. I have set chmod to 733 and chown to another user on the upload folder so that the different clients do not see each others files, but that also causes the client to not see their own files after they are uploaded or not being able to resume broken uploads. I would like the different user log in with their own username and password but all upload to the same directory and not see each others files, but just their own. Is this possible? Or does anyone have a tip how to achieve something similar? (HowTos)

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Submitted by dayu on 11/18/2010 – Made popular on 11/18/2010

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Gday everyone! Im new here... but used ubuntu for nearly ayear now!

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/home/mydomain/public_html/uploads

And I want only scripts run by the user "songbanc" to be able to write to this directory.

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I've got a webserver which hosts a website. The website is located in /home/website.

I am trying to upload files to my /var/www folder, but it won't let me, via Filezilla. I logged in with my root user account. If I am logged in as root via FTP, shouldn't I be able to do anything (like upload files to a directory, in this case)? Anyway, I know this is not the best way to solve this, but I did a "sudo chmod 777 www" to the directory so I could put the files.

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I create a user with their home directory as `/home/username` I create a sub folder called `html` for their website I chown their directory `chown -R username:apache /home/username` I chmod their directory `chmod -R 750

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VSFTPD Uploading Permissions 9 weeks 3 days ago

I currently am running an Apache2 server. I have an FTP client (vsftpd).

I have a user for the FTP using Dreamweaver. This user is added to the groups sudo and www-data.

When I connect to the server I can see the files.

I have a CentOS 6.3 installed with httpd running and vsftpd but I am unable to balance permission between the user able to upload over ftp and their website working.

What I do:

I create a user with their home directory as `/home/username` I create a sub folder called `html` for their website I chown their directory `chown -R username:apache /home/username` I chmod their directory `chmod -R 750

If I upload files to the webserver from any user OTHER than www-data, then I get a 403 error when I try to access the uploaded files from the browser. I can run "chmod 777" on the file and it works fine then, but it's very tedious to have to do this to every file I upload. Is there a way to make it so any of my users in the www-data group can upload files (via FTP) without issue?