An ISP was facing the situation, that many of his clients would
maintain their websites themselves and the webteam would quite often
have to apply some finishing touch, corrections etc. Unfortunately
the uploaded files did not have very useful permissions to perform
that task. Each time the webteam had to su, chmod and chgrp, which
was a bit of a risky thing to do, especially since they were not
knowledgeable about UNIX...
Solution
The following patch applies to
wu-ftpd-academ-2.4.2.15/16 and adds two new configuration features
to ftpaccess. It is not known how well the patch applies to current
wu-ftpds. From experience the adaptation of the patch to current
wu-ftpds should not be very difficult.
New Features
guestgroupid XXXXXX
guestgroupperm XXXX
The first feature adds a means to define under which groupid files uploaded
by a guestgroup-member should be saved. Example: the ISP was using:
# 150 is the web group
guestgroupid 150
to have uploaded files saved under group id of the web team.
The second feature adds a means to define under which permissions
the uploaded file should be saved.
The ISP was using:
guestgroupperm 0664
which enabled the web team to modify uploaded pages...
Comment
It is possible, that the problem could have been solved differently
- I couldn't figure out how though - I think this is a generic UNIX
problem with file permissions - so I wrote the patch. If you
employ or adapt the patch then please send me some feedback (
).
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