Linux FTP server help!

I am very keen to set up a linux FTP server for my office to use on
projects but while i've been testing the various options i am yet to
find a solution that doesn't involve a large amount of administration.

I would like to have a group set up for each project that allows read
access to all users folders and, as new users join, will let me update
the group as a whole and not on an individual basis.

Is this possible and are there solutions that i can use either a GUI
interface , web based interface or simple config files?

On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 07:11:27 -0800, jlm25 rearranged some electrons to
say:

> I am very keen to set up a linux FTP server for my office to use on
> projects but while i've been testing the various options i am yet to
> find a solution that doesn't involve a large amount of administration.
>
> I would like to have a group set up for each project that allows read
> access to all users folders and, as new users join, will let me update
> the group as a whole and not on an individual basis.
>
> Is this possible and are there solutions that i can use either a GUI
> interface , web based interface or simple config files?

You need to read up on users & groups basics. You can certainly set up
groups of users that have similar priveleges, and restrict their FTP
access by group.

Example documentation:
http://vsftpd.beasts.org/#docs
man useradd
man groupadd

jlm25 wrote:

> I am very keen to set up a linux FTP server for my office to use on
> projects but while i've been testing the various options i am yet to
> find a solution that doesn't involve a large amount of administration.
>
> I would like to have a group set up for each project that allows read
> access to all users folders and, as new users join, will let me update
> the group as a whole and not on an individual basis.
>
> Is this possible and are there solutions that i can use either a GUI
> interface , web based interface or simple config files?


And hello too.


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I would think that M$ junkies are unable to be polite...

If it was a BSD server, would it be dramatic for you?

On Nov 23, 5:11*pm, jlm25 <jlm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am very keen to set up a linux FTP server for my office to use on
> projects but while i've been testing the various options i am yet to
> find a solution that doesn't involve a large amount of administration.
>
> I would like to have a group set up for each project that allows read
> access to all users folders and, as new users join, will let me update
> the group as a whole and not on an individual basis.
>
> Is this possible and are there solutions that i can use either a GUI
> interface , web based interface or simple config files?

-You may use vsftp, It's easy to configure through the command line,
And also there are many GUI administration tools you may use I think
like webmin or others,
I may suggest some thing else and already installed almost on every
Linux distro, sftp, The Linux ssh implementation supports secure ftp
transfers with ssh daemon without the need to install extra packages,
And the users can connect from Windows systems easily with winscp or
alternatives, and it's support drag and drop, synchronizations and
many other good features,
-You want the groups to control the directories they have and the sup
directories? So I suggest you use the set group id, It's a good
feature on Linux permissions with give the same permission the parent
directories have to the sub directories, And if you want the owners
only of the files to delete only there files which they created use
sticky bit,
I will try to give you some help and you may search and complete the
work, We will suppose that the group name is agroup,
groupadd agroup
mkdir /home/agroup
chown agroup:agroup /home/agroup
gpasswd -a joe agroup
"Note: Some Linux ditributions don't have the gpasswd command, But
there are alternatives"
chmod 2775 /home/agroup
This will give the group members read and write support to the
directory and the sub directories,
Regards,

On Nov 24, 9:25 am, habibielwa7id <fouad...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 23, 5:11 pm, jlm25 <jlm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I am very keen to set up a linux FTP server for my office to use on
> > projects but while i've been testing the various options i am yet to
> > find a solution that doesn't involve a large amount of administration.
>
> > I would like to have a group set up for each project that allows read
> > access to all users folders and, as new users join, will let me update
> > the group as a whole and not on an individual basis.
>
> > Is this possible and are there solutions that i can use either a GUI
> > interface , web based interface or simple config files?
>
> -You may use vsftp, It's easy to configure through the command line,
> And also there are many GUI administration tools you may use I think
> like webmin or others,
> I may suggest some thing else and already installed almost on every
> Linux distro, sftp, The Linux ssh implementation supports secure ftp
> transfers with ssh daemon without the need to install extra packages,
> And the users can connect from Windows systems easily with winscp or
> alternatives, and it's support drag and drop, synchronizations and
> many other good features,
> -You want the groups to control the directories they have and the sup
> directories? So I suggest you use the set group id, It's a good
> feature on Linux permissions with give the same permission the parent
> directories have to the sub directories, And if you want the owners
> only of the files to delete only there files which they created use
> sticky bit,
> I will try to give you some help and you may search and complete the
> work, We will suppose that the group name is agroup,
> groupadd agroup
> mkdir /home/agroup
> chown agroup:agroup /home/agroup
> gpasswd -a joe agroup
> "Note: Some Linux ditributions don't have the gpasswd command, But
> there are alternatives"
> chmod 2775 /home/agroup
> This will give the group members read and write support to the
> directory and the sub directories,
> Regards,

Many thanks for all the comments, i will give this a try and let you
know how i get on. Don't suppose anyone is an expert with NSLu2's at
all? I'm trying to set up x11 on it (it has no screen output itself)
that i can run a desktop session on that allows me to log on and off
remotely as and when i need it?

On Nov 28, 2:27*pm, jlm25 <jlm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 24, 9:25 am, habibielwa7id <fouad...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Nov 23, 5:11 pm, jlm25 <jlm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > I am very keen to set up a linux FTP server for my office to use on
> > > projects but while i've been testing the various options i am yet to
> > > find a solution that doesn't involve a large amount of administration..
>
> > > I would like to have a group set up for each project that allows read
> > > access to all users folders and, as new users join, will let me update
> > > the group as a whole and not on an individual basis.
>
> > > Is this possible and are there solutions that i can use either a GUI
> > > interface , web based interface or simple config files?
>
> > -You may use vsftp, It's easy to configure through the command line,
> > And also there are many GUI administration tools you may use I think
> > like webmin or others,
> > I may suggest some thing else and already installed almost on every
> > Linux distro, sftp, The Linux ssh implementation supports secure ftp
> > transfers with ssh daemon without the need to install extra packages,
> > And the users can connect from Windows systems easily with winscp or
> > alternatives, and it's support drag and drop, synchronizations and
> > many other good *features,
> > -You want the groups to control the directories they have and the sup
> > directories? So I suggest you use the set group id, It's a good
> > feature on Linux permissions with give the same permission the parent
> > directories have to the sub directories, And if you want the owners
> > only of the files to delete only there files which they created use
> > sticky bit,
> > I will try to give you some help and you may search and complete the
> > work, We will suppose that the group name is agroup,
> > groupadd agroup
> > mkdir /home/agroup
> > chown agroup:agroup /home/agroup
> > gpasswd -a joe *agroup
> > "Note: Some Linux ditributions don't have the gpasswd command, But
> > there are alternatives"
> > chmod 2775 /home/agroup
> > This will give the group members read and write support to the
> > directory and the sub directories,
> > Regards,
>
> Many thanks for all the comments, i will give this a try and let you
> know how i get on. Don't suppose anyone is an expert with NSLu2's at
> all? I'm trying to set up x11 on it (it has no screen output itself)
> that i can run a desktop session on that allows me to log on and off
> remotely as and when i need it?

-If you want to login remotely to Linux using GUI you can use VNC,
Install vncserver on Linux and you can connect to it from Windows or
Linux easily, The clients are every where, On Windows just search
about vncviewer.exe, And on Linux install vncviewer command or any
front end if you so choose ,like krdc. Start the server on Linux using
vncserver :1.
There is away to add ssl support to vnc on Linux if you need so.
By theway, You can connect to Linux GUI application from within SSH
server without installing some thing like VNC, Some think like this,
From Linux login to the other machine with this option,
ssh 10.0.0.1 -X
and there type the name of the GUI application you want to import
locally like this
gedit &
Regards,
Regards,