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In vsftpd, I would like to have user upload file directly to web directory(/var/www/site/) however, the web directory is owned by www user and group.

I know there is chown_username and such thing for anonymous user however that doesn't work for my case. What do I do in vsftp?

thanks.

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You can add local_root=/var/www/site/ in the vsftpd.conf file as the root directory ftp user.

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  • that's not my problem. the problem is that the ftp directory is owned by www-user and ftp user is not allowed to write to it. Commented Mar 8, 2012 at 6:07
  • you can give the perm for the ftp user to access the folder using setfacl command Commented Mar 8, 2012 at 6:26
  • I am hoping for a vsftp solution. Now I am resorting to adding ftp user to www-data group, set umask to 002 in vsftp and have the web root dir group writtable. Commented Mar 8, 2012 at 6:57
  • Even when the user is added to www-data group and file is uploaded through FTP Client, the user and group id of this file is different from www-data user/group id. And the file is not accessible from the web browser. Commented May 15, 2018 at 13:45

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