special ftp server configuration

[Martin Jürgens]

Hi,

i'm searching a ftp server which i can configure to do this:

user a: write access to ftpdir and ftpdir/income
user b: read access to ftpdir, write access to ftpdir/income

I'd be glad if someone could give me a hint on how to realize it a slick
way. I know some windows servers like filezilla with which realizing
such situations is no problem, but I sadly do not have an idea on how to
do this with linux, although I am neither a google- nor a a
configuration-file hater ;)

Thanks for your help,

Martin

[Tim]

Martin Jürgens:
> I know some windows servers like filezilla with which realizing
> such situations is no problem, but I sadly do not have an idea on how
> to do this with linux

Filezilla's not just for Windows, but it's a client not a server.  Were
you thinking of something else?

FileZilla - The free FTP solution http://filezilla-project.org/
Open Source (GNU/GPL) FTP client for Windows, Mac OS X and GNU/Linux.

[Martin Jürgens]

Hi,
> > I know some windows servers like filezilla with which realizing
> > such situations is no problem, but I sadly do not have an idea on how
> > to do this with linux
>
> Filezilla's not just for Windows, but it's a client not a server.  Were
> you thinking of something else?

They also develop a FileZilla FTP-Server which is Windows-Only: http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=server, which offers the options I'd like to have.

Martin

[Mike Chambers]

On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 13:29 +0200, Martin Jürgens wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i'm searching a ftp server which i can configure to do this:
>
> user a: write access to ftpdir and ftpdir/income
> user b: read access to ftpdir, write access to ftpdir/income
>
> I'd be glad if someone could give me a hint on how to realize it a slick
> way. I know some windows servers like filezilla with which realizing
> such situations is no problem, but I sadly do not have an idea on how to
> do this with linux, although I am neither a google- nor a a
> configuration-file hater ;)

Can't you just create groups per access for each dir and list the users
in those groups?

[stan]

Martin Jürgens wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i'm searching a ftp server which i can configure to do this:
>
> user a: write access to ftpdir and ftpdir/income
> user b: read access to ftpdir, write access to ftpdir/income
>
> I'd be glad if someone could give me a hint on how to realize it a slick
> way. I know some windows servers like filezilla with which realizing
> such situations is no problem, but I sadly do not have an idea on how to
> do this with linux, although I am neither a google- nor a a
> configuration-file hater ;)
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Martin

I haven't done it, but you should be able to do this on a binary split 
basis with vsftpd.  Do   man vsftpd.conf   and look at the ftp_user and 
guest_user descriptions.  You can give them different abilities, so the 
people you want to have restricted write ability become anonymous 
ftp_users (still with password), and the people you want to have full 
write ability become guest users.  It doesn't appear to support per user 
permissions, though there is something in the man about allowing people 
who have permissions on a directory to alter it.  Maybe you can create 
users for your function, give them the permissions you want, and have 
your user a and b login with the created roles.  You'd have to play 
around, I haven't.