[lug] "Squashing" users in wu-ftp

[George Sexton]

You realize that means every user would be able to edit every other
users information? It would be better to not do this, but to make the
directorys SETGID.

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us]
On Behalf Of Jeff Schroeder
Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2003 12:56 AM
To: Linux Users Group
Subject: [lug] "Squashing" users in wu-ftp


Hey all--

One of the (many) cool features of Samba and NFS is the ability to 
"squash" users to a specific user/group on the filesystem.  For 
example, I can configure a Samba mount point so everyone who connects 
will behave (on the server) as if they were, for example, the 'nobody' 
user.  All files they create will be owned by nobody, and everyone will 
be able to read and write everyone else's things because they're all 
the same user to the server.

I'd like to do the same thing with FTP.  I'm using wu-ftpd (please, no 
flame wars) and don't see any such option.  I'd like to have a whole 
set of users who, when they login, are treated by the server as if they 
were the 'nobody' user.

This would be immensely useful because I'm providing web access (using 
PHP) to the same area, and because Apache is running as 'nobody' I'd 
like everything to be consistent so web users can modify the same files 
that FTP users see, and vice versa.

Any suggestions?

TIA,
Jeff

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