FTP Services at ETI

ETI uses ProFTPd FTP software version 1.2.0rc2. The instructions that follow serve as a guide to our current FTP services, and include transition instructions for users of our previous services. Users seeking basic file transfer instructions will want to visit ETI's instruction page on uploading files using FTP.

Directory Structure

Previously, all FTP files were stored in a directory called .ftp, and subdirectories were created from there. Our current FTP structure is as follows (starting from your home directory ) :

.ftp — Base ftp directory. This directory will hold any configuration files (when available) for the individual user's FTP services.

.ftp/public — This is the anonymous directory. Any files a user wants accessible through anonymous ftp must be available here.

.ftp/public/incoming — This is an anonymous upload directory. Many users may not want this capability; however, the directory must exist. If you do not want anonymous uploading, then you can change the permissions on the directory to prevent world write capability.

Note: "chmod 600 incoming" from a telnet session will block uploads to the incoming directory. This is the default setting. Anyone who wants to allow anonymous uploading will need to change the directory permissions from 600 to 666 or higher.

Also, when changing permissions on files or directories, you may notice that all files will be owned by user "ftp", the group name "ftp", and that the actual permissions of the files are not shown. However, this will not affect the actual permissions of the files, and all of the files will still technically be owned by the user.

Modifications

With the FTP services implemented at ETI, the only modifications that users may make will be to change the welcome message. Users wishing to make additional modifications (block domains, etc.) will need to contact Technical Support to make the changes.

Domains

Users with domains will be able to to FTP directly to their domain. Logging in with the username and password of the domain will start you in your home directory. Logging in anonymously will take you to ~/.ftp/public with "read only" permissions.

FTP transfers for hosted domains will be logged to separate files in the weblogs directory for that domain. These files will be available to the user that owns the domain.

Users

Logging into ftp.eticomm.net will work almost exactly the same as before. Logging in as a user will take you to your home directory; logging in anonymously will take you to ETI's public access area.

Users wishing to have the ability to serve files from their account anonymously will need to make some changes.

ftp://ftp.eticomm.net/~user/filename

will need to change to:

ftp://username@ftp.eticomm.net/filename

If you do not wish to serve files anonymously, then you should not put any files in your .ftp/public directory.

If you have any questions that have not been addressed on this page, you should direct them to our FTP Administrator.