Re: [cobalt-users] Overcoming the /~username problem

[Jeremy Wadsack <jwadsack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lillith Lesanges (lillith@xxxxxxxxxx; Friday, March 28, 2003 9:58 AM):

> On Friday, March 28, 2003, at 06:02 ante, Ian wrote:
>> Anyone any ideas of how to easily overcome the age of problem of 
>> people loggin into a Raq4r and landing in the siteadmin folder and 
>> then uploading everything by mistake to that folder.

> While I agree that in general, education is the answer, I have found a 
> situation where education cannot help.

> End users (ie, clients) who use IE as their FTP client.  I have a 
> couple client for whom no amount of education will change this basic 
> fact.

> I cannot determine -any- URL which will get IE to find the siteadmin 
> web folder.

> I tried symlinks (to no avail, even with srm.conf changes).  In the 
> end, the only thing I could think of was to manually change the homedir 
> of the user in /etc/passwd (via vipw).  That, of course, totally mucks 
> up the GUI.

> Anyone else have any suggestions beyond 'try another ftp client' and 
> 'live with a broken gui'?

I'm not sure I follow the problem here, so to clarify: Site admins are
logging in with FTP and uploading web content to their HOME directory
rather than the website directory?

We worked around this by changing the DefaultChdir settings in
/etc/proftpd.conf to start them in the web directory instead.



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Jeremy Wadsack
Wadsack-Allen Digital Group