vsftpd (proftpd)

[David Bruzos]

Here is the answer for your question.

# Enable this to show textual user names and groups instead of UID's and GID's.
text_userdb_names=YES

Put this in the vsftpd config file.

On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 09:25:09PM -0500, Lorenzo Prince wrote:
> Is there a way to make vsftpd give a listing for an ftp directory that looks
> like:
> 
> drwxr-x---   4 lorenzo ftp  4096 Feb 24  2004 Christmas
> drwxr-x---   2 lorenzo ftp  4096 May  3  2004 DVS
> drwxr-x---   2 lorenzo ftp  4096 May  1  2004 comedy
> drwxr-x---   2 lorenzo ftp  4096 Feb 24  2004 dectalk
> drwxr-x---   2 lorenzo ftp  4096 Dec  9 00:37 images
> drwx-wx---   5 lorenzo ftp  4096 Jan 17 17:04 incoming
> drwxr-x---  55 lorenzo ftp 20480 Dec 29 22:03 music
> drwxr-x---   4 lorenzo ftp  4096 Feb 24  2004 narnia
> drwxr-x---   3 lorenzo ftp  4096 Jan 16 02:04 software
> drwxr-x---   2 lorenzo ftp  4096 Dec 28 10:46 soundfonts
> drwxr-x---   2 lorenzo ftp  8192 May 14  2004 sounds
> drwxr-x---   3 lorenzo ftp  4096 Feb 24  2004 text
> drwxr-x---   2 lorenzo ftp  4096 May 29  2004 video
> 
> and to make it actually let people download files with similar permissions and
> ownership, with the exception that all files are rw-r----- instead of
> rwx-r-x----?
> 
> Actually, this is the only reason why I still use proftpd, as I like how vsftpd
> can chroot local users in their home directories so they don't have ftp access
> to other parts of the system.
> 
> Sorry for the diversion, but I thought since vsftpd was mentioned as a better
> sollution I should go ahead and ask my question here.  I will repost in a new
> thread if it is more appropriate.
> 
> PRINCE
> 
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