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

[Jeremy Wadsack <jwadsack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian (ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Friday, March 28, 2003 10:14 AM):

> Hi Jeremy,

>> 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.

> That sounds like just the ticket apart from one thing, it would affect every
> single user on a server right?

> What if a vsite user does not have siteadmin rights, i.e. they can
> only work within their own web user space, which is what we provide
> within one vsite in particular, would this not muck that up, or is
> there something you do within the proftpd.conf that takes this into
> account and only puts the siteadmins straight into the vsites web
> folder...

You can use a group-expression to limit who is affected by it. e.g.

    DefaultChdir ../../web/ site-adm

If you want a different setting for everyone else use '!site-adm' as
the group-expression.

See http://proftpd.org/docs/directives/linked/config_ref_DefaultChdir.html


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Jeremy Wadsack
Wadsack-Allen Digital Group