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Simon Child <simon@child.demon.co.uk> doodled in uk.comp.os.linux:
> >Yikes, didn't anything interesting turn up in /var/log/messages, security or
> >the xferlog before resorting to strace?
> Afraid not. Nothing helpful in messages (records an anonymous login and the
> subsequent closing of the ftp session). /var/log/secure records a connect
> from localhost. xferlog records downloads, but gives no record of refusal of
> uploads.

Pants! :(  :)

> >Check your /etc/ftpaccess file. The chances are at least one of the
> >directories isn't set to allow incoming (writes) from anonymous users.
> I posted my ftpaccess file at the beginning of this thread. It is as
> installed by the RH6.0 install, and with a couple of changes that I tried
> indicated by comments.

Ah. Can you remind me then, what did it have for the section:

	#specify the upload directory information
	upload  /home/ftp  *             no
	upload  /home/ftp  /incoming     yes     root    daemon  0600 dirs
	upload  /home/ftp  /bin          no
	upload  /home/ftp  /etc          no

A slackware box I use has this, and with suitable permissions on
~ftp/incoming/ (bearing in mind that you're writing into the directory as the
'ftp' user) it works fine.

> RH6.0 is using shadow passwords, which I wasn't using on 5.2 - is that
> anything to do with it? But authentication seems alright (I'm allowed an
> anonymous connect and can download files) and permissions seem alright (user
> ftp can write files to the incoming directory).

Shadow password auth shouldn't have any effect on it at all, if you're coming
in as anonymous.

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