Ftp file permisions chown ftpuser:ftpgroup

Hi
i have tried to solve this by myself searhing through a few forum posts but no luck.
I did come across a reply from falko about changing permisions form apache to ftpuser:ftp group by using the following command

chown ftpuser:ftpgroup /var/www/web1/
chown -R ftpuser:ftpgroup /var/www/web1/
but i get for both commands

chown: `ftpuser:ftpgroup': invalid user

previously i aplyed
chown -R -v -f www-data:www-data web/*

which i got from the joomla_ispconfig tutorial making it writable for apache
but i think that needs to be changed.

my /etc/proftpd.conf is as follows

Code:

# /etc/proftpd.conf -- This is a basic ProFTPD configuration file.
# To really apply changes reload proftpd after modifications.
#

ServerName                      "Debian"
ServerType                      standalone
DeferWelcome                    off

MultilineRFC2228                on
DefaultServer                   on
ShowSymlinks                    on

TimeoutNoTransfer               600
TimeoutStalled                  600
TimeoutIdle                     1200

DisplayLogin                    welcome.msg
DisplayFirstChdir               .message
ListOptions                     "-l"

DenyFilter                      \*.*/

# Uncomment this if you are using NIS or LDAP to retrieve passwords:
#PersistentPasswd               off

# Uncomment this if you would use TLS module:
#TLSEngine                      on

# Uncomment this if you would use quota module:
#Quotas                         on

# Uncomment this if you would use ratio module:
#Ratios                         on

# Port 21 is the standard FTP port.
Port                            21

# To prevent DoS attacks, set the maximum number of child processes
# to 30.  If you need to allow more than 30 concurrent connections
# at once, simply increase this value.  Note that this ONLY works
# in standalone mode, in inetd mode you should use an inetd server
# that allows you to limit maximum number of processes per service
# (such as xinetd)
MaxInstances                    30

# Set the user and group that the server normally runs at.
User                            nobody
Group                           nogroup

# Umask 022 is a good standard umask to prevent new files and dirs
# (second parm) from being group and world writable.
Umask                           022  022
# Normally, we want files to be overwriteable.
AllowOverwrite                  on

# Delay engine reduces impact of the so-called Timing Attack described in
# http://security.lss.hr/index.php?page=details&ID=LSS-2004-10-02
# It is on by default.
#DelayEngine                    off

# A basic anonymous configuration, no upload directories.

# <Anonymous ~ftp>
#   User                                ftp
#   Group                               nogroup
#   # We want clients to be able to login with "anonymous" as well as "ftp"
#   UserAlias                   anonymous ftp
#   # Cosmetic changes, all files belongs to ftp user
#   DirFakeUser on ftp
#   DirFakeGroup on ftp
#
#   RequireValidShell           off
#
#   # Limit the maximum number of anonymous logins
#   MaxClients                  10
#
#   # We want 'welcome.msg' displayed at login, and '.message' displayed
#   # in each newly chdired directory.
#   DisplayLogin                        welcome.msg
#   DisplayFirstChdir           .message
#
#   # Limit WRITE everywhere in the anonymous chroot
#   <Directory *>
#     <Limit WRITE>
#       DenyAll
#     </Limit>
#   </Directory>
#
#   # Uncomment this if you're brave.
#   # <Directory incoming>
#   #   # Umask 022 is a good standard umask to prevent new files and dirs
#   #   # (second parm) from being group and world writable.
#   #   Umask                           022  022
#   #            <Limit READ WRITE>
#   #            DenyAll
#   #            </Limit>
#   #            <Limit STOR>
#   #            AllowAll
#   #            </Limit>
#   # </Directory>
#
DefaultRoot ~
IdentLookups off
ServerIdent on "FTP Server ready."
# </Anonymous>


Include /etc/proftpd_ispconfig.conf

could some one please give me the steps id need to take to change this?

thx

 

Site runs under admin group

would i be changing the /etc/proftpd.conf file in the following section

# Set the user and group that the server normally runs at.
User nobody
Group nogroup

to

# Set the user and group that the server normally runs at.
User admin-user-name
Group admin

or is there a set of commands i should run ?
this my 4th day on linux so not sure how to do command type changes.

Thx

 

yes
and everythign is working fine apart from the file permisions for users FTP
they are all set to www-data making it hard for me to chnage any files in a websites directory when im accesing it via ftp.

In ISPConfig i only have made 1 client which is me
added 1 websites which is working fine
and added 1 administative user

should i have perhaps set myself up as a ressler first ?

 

No, don't change your Proftpd configuration.

What's the username of that web site's admin user?

 

user name is webregister

 

I corrected permissions for ftp so the admin of the website has ownership for all files by running

chown -R -v -f (admin_account_username):www-data web/*

that made all existing files to be have administrator control
but anytime i upload any form of component or module for joomla within joomla

the ftp client shows those files having owner www-data

now i can simply run the above mentioned chown command for any of the sites
but there has to be a better way around this.

 

You could do a chmod 777 on all files, but if your server is used by other users, too, they get write access to your files.

 

Problem is ownership of files anytime anything is done from within joomla they have www-data ownership. Their should be a directive for the ownership to be the administrator of that web. Commercial linux systems running clients hosting account always show a 5 digit number for ownership for all the files that do not change when installing items with joomla.

For now the command i mentioned on top does do the trick but ill have to find a way to tell the system that even joomla installs are owned by administrator.

 

Thanks till ill take a run at reading some of the posts. It will be a lot easier now that i know roughly what im looking for