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Old November 29th, 2003, 05:39 AM
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FTP newbie help..
Hi... I am new to linux and as such am just finding my way round with the help of excellent forums like this. I am however stuck regarding FTP logins. I can login to SSH,webmin,mysql using root&pass. I cannot however login to FTP using this combo. It will let me login as a user but with no permissions. Is there a file somewhere that has to be tweaked. I am currently using Apache V2.0.40 & RedHat but do not know the version. Where do i find this version info. Cannot seem to find it. Hope someone can help. Many TIA. Peter
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Old November 29th, 2003, 06:36 AM
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do you have an FTP server running on the machine? (worth asking) netstat -l | grep ftp or ps -ef | grep ftp will show you what's running.

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Old November 29th, 2003, 07:10 AM
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tcp 0 0 *:ftp *:* LISTEN

is the reply from the first command.

root 2400 1 0 04:39 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/vsftpd /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
root 3309 3282 0 07:07 pts/0 00:00:00 grep ftp

is the reply from the 2nd command.

I can login as user but not as root. Is there some kind of access file that i need to tweak?
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Old November 29th, 2003, 07:13 AM
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aah right - I'm with you now.. I haven't used vsftp, but I have played with wuftp and pro - You'll probably find a file named something like /etc/ftpusers or /etc/ftpaccess or /etc/ftpsomthing - I don't mean your config file, but most likely a separate file for specifying which users have access to this ftp server. The root user is often disabled for security reasons and you should consider leaving it that way -

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Thx 4 reply. I am confused now. I have no /etc/ftpaccess files or anything like that. How do i login as root?
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How do i login as root?
er.. is this your server or somebody else's?

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it is a dedicated server but there is no support. left to your own. The idea behinnd the server was to learn linux and become semi proficient and then offer web space to clients etc.
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For security reasons, FTP access by root is disabled. You shouldn't need to upload files as root anyways. Upload files as another user and if you need them to be in a system directory, use mv (assumming you have shell access, which you should with a dedicated server) to move them there.
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