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From: Baho Utot on 13 Apr 2010 17:21 Artist wrote: > Now I have a new problem. Before I was able to FTP, to get the website > on the server, I used Tunnelier SSH to upload the site. Now I cannot > overwrite any files that Tunnelier put there. The error message I get is: > > "An FTP error occurred - cannot put contact.htm. > Access Denied. The file may not exist, or > there could be a permission problem." > > I am able to upload a test page by FTP and overwrite and delete that > test page by means of FTP. There is no difference in permissions between > files put there by FTP and SSH. These are -rw-r--r-- for both. What > other permissions are there? > > > > > what user owns the file(s)
From: Baho Utot on 13 Apr 2010 17:21 Sidney Lambe wrote: > On comp.os.linux.setup, Sidney Lambe <sidneylambe(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: >> On comp.os.linux.setup, Artist <Artist(a)sj.speakeasy.net> wrote: >>> Sidney Lambe wrote: >>>> On comp.os.linux.setup, Artist <Artist(a)sj.speakeasy.net> wrote: >>>>> I am trying to get pure-ftpd working on a Debian Lenny VPS account. >>>>> Right now I cannot make a connection to it. It is listening on port >>>>> 21: >>>>> >>>>> ~# netstat -tanpu | grep LISTEN | grep 21 >>>>> tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:21 0.0.0.0:* >>>>> LISTEN 13293/pure-ftpd (SE >>>>> tcp6 0 0 :::21 :::* >>>>> LISTEN 13293/pure-ftpd (SE >>>>> ~# >>>> >>>>> I need to know if should see the all zero default IP address >>>>> here or the website's IP address. >>>>> >>>>> I also need to know if Bind9 needs to be configured for FTP. >>>> >>>> Could be you need to open a doorway for FTP in your firewall. >>>> If you are using iptables this should work: >>>> >>>> /usr/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 21 -j ACCEPT >> >>> I executed this statement. It did not make a difference. >> >> Oh well, worth a shot. >> >> You probably should check what's going on with iptables: iptables >> -L and conceivably remove that rule, although it may have been >> there already. Should have been, unless there's another way tp >> accomplish the same thing with iptables... Does iptables ignore >> redundant rules or just add the new one? Don't know. To delete >> it: >> >> iptables -D INPUT -p tcp --dport 21 -j ACCEPT >> >>> >>> On my system it is located at /sbin/iptables, rather than a >>> subdirectory of /usr >>> >> >> Good luck. I don't have any other good ideas at present. >> >> Maybe your ISP blocks that port and you'll have to choose >> one over 1000.... >> >> Sid >> >> > > You know, I'd forget about the VPS stuff and get it working > as a simple FTP server first, removing a layer of complexity. > If it works in the basic configuration, and doesn't as a VPS > server, then you know that's where the problem is... > > Sid Idiot!
From: Baho Utot on 13 Apr 2010 17:21 Sidney Lambe wrote: > On comp.os.linux.setup, Artist <Artist(a)sj.speakeasy.net> wrote: >> Sidney Lambe wrote: >>> On comp.os.linux.setup, Artist <Artist(a)sj.speakeasy.net> wrote: >>>> I am trying to get pure-ftpd working on a Debian Lenny VPS account. >>>> Right now I cannot make a connection to it. It is listening on port 21: >>>> >>>> ~# netstat -tanpu | grep LISTEN | grep 21 >>>> tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:21 0.0.0.0:* >>>> LISTEN 13293/pure-ftpd (SE >>>> tcp6 0 0 :::21 :::* >>>> LISTEN 13293/pure-ftpd (SE >>>> ~# >>> >>>> I need to know if should see the all zero default IP address >>>> here or the website's IP address. >>>> >>>> I also need to know if Bind9 needs to be configured for FTP. >>> >>> Could be you need to open a doorway for FTP in your firewall. >>> If you are using iptables this should work: >>> >>> /usr/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 21 -j ACCEPT > >> I executed this statement. It did not make a difference. > > Oh well, worth a shot. > > You probably should check what's going on with iptables: iptables > -L and conceivably remove that rule, although it may have been > there already. Should have been, unless there's another way tp > accomplish the same thing with iptables... Does iptables ignore > redundant rules or just add the new one? Don't know. To delete > it: > > iptables -D INPUT -p tcp --dport 21 -j ACCEPT > >> >> On my system it is located at /sbin/iptables, rather than a >> subdirectory of /usr >> > > Good luck. I don't have any other good ideas at present. > > Maybe your ISP blocks that port and you'll have to choose > one over 1000.... > > Sid Idiot
From: Artist on 14 Apr 2010 01:06
Baho Utot wrote: > Artist wrote: > >> Now I have a new problem. Before I was able to FTP, to get the website >> on the server, I used Tunnelier SSH to upload the site. Now I cannot >> overwrite any files that Tunnelier put there. The error message I get is: >> >> "An FTP error occurred - cannot put contact.htm. >> Access Denied. The file may not exist, or >> there could be a permission problem." >> >> I am able to upload a test page by FTP and overwrite and delete that >> test page by means of FTP. There is no difference in permissions between >> files put there by FTP and SSH. These are -rw-r--r-- for both. What >> other permissions are there? >> >> > what user owns the file(s) > > It was indeed an ownership problem. All the files were owned by root. I changed the ownership of them all and I am now able to overwrite any file using FTP. Thanks for the hint. :) -- If you desire to respond directly remove the "sj." from the domain name part of my email address. It is a spam jammer. |