Re: [CentOS] vsftpd question

2009-11-16 Thread Les Mikesell
John R Pierce wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: >> I'd consider starting things at boot time to be as unrelated as you can >> get. There's next to nothing in common between bsd and sysV oriented >> systems (I think the ones you mention are mostly sysV-ish). And the ftp >> config concepts go with th

Re: [CentOS] vsftpd question

2009-11-16 Thread John R Pierce
Les Mikesell wrote: > I'd consider starting things at boot time to be as unrelated as you can > get. There's next to nothing in common between bsd and sysV oriented > systems (I think the ones you mention are mostly sysV-ish). And the ftp > config concepts go with the choice of the application

Re: [CentOS] vsftpd question

2009-11-16 Thread Les Mikesell
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> mark wrote: >>> I got the book, and followed the directions. I, and others, have pointed >>> you to dtuff, Viktor. You say you've not run a server in a while, and that >>> "every OS is different." I'm assuming that means you ran Windows > servers, and have >>> not yet tak

Re: [CentOS] vsftpd question

2009-11-16 Thread m . roth
> mark wrote: >> >> I got the book, and followed the directions. I, and others, have pointed >> you to dtuff, Viktor. You say you've not run a server in a while, and that >> "every OS is different." I'm assuming that means you ran Windows servers, and have >> not yet taken enough time to actually l

Re: [CentOS] vsftpd question

2009-11-16 Thread Les Mikesell
mark wrote: > > I got the book, and followed the directions. I, and others, have pointed you > to > stuff, Viktor. You say you've not run a server in a while, and that "every OS > is different." I'm assuming that means you ran Windows servers, and have not > yet taken enough time to actually l

Re: [CentOS] vsftpd question

2009-11-16 Thread mark
Jim Perrin wrote: > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Victor Subervi > wrote: >> Hi; >> I've learned how to add a user and change the root dir of vsftpd (which of >> course is undocumented). Now I need to learn how to make it so that a given >> user can only access his/her folder (within the root

Re: [CentOS] vsftpd question

2009-11-14 Thread John R Pierce
> They don't have to scroll down. Just a "thank you!" and goodbye. "Thank You" did you have to scroll down to read that? More important than top vs bottom is EDITING THE QUOTED PORTION OF THE MESSAGE. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] vsftpd question

2009-11-14 Thread Drew
>> Please stop being rude to the members of this list. > > I am not being rude in the least. Perhaps it is because email is so > difficult to communicate attitudes, as we all know, that you are viewing > things one way while I am saying them another. At any rate, please accept my > apologies, altho

Re: [CentOS] vsftpd question

2009-11-14 Thread Jim Perrin
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Victor Subervi wrote: > Ok. It's "the law". Now, what is the __logic__ behind not top post

Re: [CentOS] vsftpd question

2009-11-14 Thread Victor Subervi
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 7:01 AM, John R. Dennison wrote: > On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 05:45:34AM -0500, Victor Subervi wrote: > > > > Now, forgive me, but that seems anal. What's the rationale there? > >While that may seem "anal" to you, it's one of the guidelines >of this and other

Re: [CentOS] vsftpd question

2009-11-14 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 05:45:34AM -0500, Victor Subervi wrote: > > Now, forgive me, but that seems anal. What's the rationale there? While that may seem "anal" to you, it's one of the guidelines of this and other CentOS mailing lists as specified at: http://www.centos.o

Re: [CentOS] vsftpd question

2009-11-14 Thread Victor Subervi
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Jim Perrin wrote: > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Victor Subervi > wrote: > > Hi; > > I've learned how to add a user and change the root dir of vsftpd (which > of > > course is undocumented). Now I need to learn how to make it so that a > given > > user can on

Re: [CentOS] vsftpd question

2009-11-14 Thread Victor Subervi
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Andrei F wrote: > Hi, > > Take a look at the chroot_list_enable option. It enables you to specify > per-user config. > > http://vsftpd.beasts.org/vsftpd_conf.html Thank you. V ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] vsftpd question

2009-11-14 Thread Victor Subervi
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > > I haven't been doing that for quite some time now, except when I'm > > thanking you all for help, in which case I believe it's easier for all > > concerned. Do you disagree? > > dont top post at all. > Now, forgive me, but that seems anal

Re: [CentOS] vsftpd question

2009-11-13 Thread Steven Vishoot
- Original Message > From: Jim Perrin > To: CentOS mailing list > Sent: Fri, November 13, 2009 3:31:42 PM > Subject: Re: [CentOS] vsftpd question > > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Victor Subervi wrote: > > Hi; > > I've learned how to add a use

Re: [CentOS] vsftpd question

2009-11-13 Thread Jim Perrin
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Victor Subervi wrote: > Hi; > I've learned how to add a user and change the root dir of vsftpd (which of > course is undocumented). Now I need to learn how to make it so that a given > user can only access his/her folder (within the root dir). Please advise. Pleas

Re: [CentOS] vsftpd question

2009-11-13 Thread Andrei F
Hi, Take a look at the chroot_list_enable option. It enables you to specify per-user config. http://vsftpd.beasts.org/vsftpd_conf.html Cheers! -- Andrei On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Victor Subervi wrote: > Hi; > I've learned how to add a user and change the root dir of vsftpd (which of >

Re: [CentOS] vsftpd question

2009-11-13 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 11/13/2009 08:29 PM, Victor Subervi wrote: > Well, you all pointed me to some documentation that was hardly worthy of > the name. well, did you look at the vsftpd man page and also the config file that is in the package ? I see everything that I need to do all these things very clearly mentio

Re: [CentOS] vsftpd question

2009-11-13 Thread Victor Subervi
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 11/13/2009 07:16 PM, Victor Subervi wrote: > > Hi; > > I've learned how to add a user and change the root dir of vsftpd (which > > of course is undocumented). Now I need to learn how to make it so that a > > given user can only access his

Re: [CentOS] vsftpd question

2009-11-13 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 11/13/2009 07:16 PM, Victor Subervi wrote: > Hi; > I've learned how to add a user and change the root dir of vsftpd (which > of course is undocumented). Now I need to learn how to make it so that a > given user can only access his/her folder (within the root dir). Please not sure what docs you