Changing FTP DIrectories

[jpro6363]

I am trying to change what directory opens when I open an FTP Session to my computer. This is what I have found but it is not working.

jason@Jason-PC:~$ sudo mkdir /media/sdb1/ftp
[sudo] password for jason:
jason@Jason-PC:~$ sudo usermod -d /media/sdb1/ftp ftp
usermod: no changes
jason@Jason-PC:~$


Thanks for any help with this!

[Snowhog]

Re: Changing FTP DIrectories

What ftp app are you using? Graphical or CLI (command line)? No matter which, each will have a configuration option. If a graphical ftp app, what does its Settings > Configure ... provide? If a CLI utility, what does app_name --help tell you?

[jpro6363]

Re: Changing FTP DIrectories

I'm using vsftpd but when I try using the help command I get this.


jason@Jason-PC:~$ vsftpd --help
500 OOPS: unrecognise option: --help
jason@Jason-PC:~$ vsftpd help
500 OOPS: cannot read config file: help
jason@Jason-PC:~$ vsftpd man
500 OOPS: cannot read config file: man
jason@Jason-PC:~$

[doctordruidphd]

Re: Changing FTP DIrectories

jason@Jason-PC:~$ sudo usermod -d /media/sdb1/ftp ftp

Won't work, because you created /ftp as root.

sudo chown -R ftp:ftp /ftp

See if that helps. Though that might not be the best way to do it -- you don't want incoming connections getting into your root directory structure. Probably /var/ftp or even /home/ftp would be better. You can always symlink them somewhere else.

I'm not familiar with vsftpd, try man vsftpd or look for it's homepage, that usually has more details on how to set it up, and there might be some additonal documentation in /usr/share/docs. You might try looking in /etc/vsftpd for config files. wu-ftpd puts them in /etc/wu-ftpd