permission denied trying to FTP

Hello. Having a problem that I haven't been able to find out exactly why it
is happening.

I am logged in as superuser and in the home directory. I open ftp to
another one of my servers using a non-su account on the other server (which
the account name exists on originating server as well).

I do a send using absolute path to the file in a different directory. I get
permission denied. Now, if I cd to the directory the file resides then
start ftp, I can send it fine.

Any ideas?

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
http://www.rutgersinsurance.com

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Re: permission denied trying to FTP

Adam Lang wrote:

> Hello. Having a problem that I haven't been able to find out exactly why it
> is happening.
>
> I am logged in as superuser and in the home directory. I open ftp to
> another one of my servers using a non-su account on the other server (which
> the account name exists on originating server as well).
>
> I do a send using absolute path to the file in a different directory. I get
> permission denied. Now, if I cd to the directory the file resides then
> start ftp, I can send it fine.
>
> Any ideas?

If you "put" a file using an absolute path, it uses that path for both
the local and remote filenames, so the account needs permission to
write to the specified directory on the server.

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Glynn Clements
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Re: permission denied trying to FTP

I just "sort of" figured it out just a second ago.

This gives me permission denied:

ftp
cd /home/www/squid
send /usr/adam_utils/webreport.tar

This works:

ftp
cd /home/www/squid
send /usr/adam_utils/webreport.tar ./webreport.tar

Not sure why. The server is wu-ftpd 2.6.1

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Gates"
To: "Adam Lang"
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 11:04 AM
Subject: Re: permission denied trying to FTP


> what ftpd are you using? what permissions? what directory? send me a
> little log file of what you do and i will try to help you out. seems like
> just a wrong permissions on either the directory or the ftpd config needs
> to be modified.
>
> > Hello. Having a problem that I haven't been able to find out exactly
why
> > it
> > is happening.
> >
> > I am logged in as superuser and in the home directory. I open ftp to
> > another one of my servers using a non-su account on the other server
> > (which
> > the account name exists on originating server as well).
> >
> > I do a send using absolute path to the file in a different directory. I
> > get
> > permission denied. Now, if I cd to the directory the file resides then
> > start ftp, I can send it fine.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Adam Lang
> > Systems Engineer
> > Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
> > http://www.rutgersinsurance.com
> >
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> >
>
>
> --
> dabozz@sdf.lonestar.org

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