Help with ProFtpd

[TheMightyNewbie]

trying to set up a basic ftp for my friend to access. It all seems to be fine except that I can't give him MKD permission. tried plugging in RETR and denyall in my conf file below and that took, but MKD and allowall still give him 'permission denied :(' Here's my proftp.conf file. Anything I'm doing wrong?


# This is a basic ProFTPD configuration file (rename it to
# 'proftpd.conf' for actual use. It establishes a single server
# and a single anonymous login. It assumes that you have a user/group
# "nobody" and "ftp" for normal operation and anon.

ServerName "Server of ****!"
ServerType standalone
DefaultServer on

# Port 21 is the standard FTP port.
Port 21
# Umask 022 is a good standard umask to prevent new dirs and files
# from being group and world writable.
Umask 002

# To prevent DoS attacks, set the maximum number of child processes
# to 30. If you need to allow more than 30 concurrent connections
# at once, simply increase this value. Note that this ONLY works
# in standalone mode, in inetd mode you should use an inetd server
# that allows you to limit maximum number of processes per service
# (such as xinetd)
MaxInstances 30

# Set the user and group that the server normally runs at.
User nobody
Group nobody

# Normally, we want files to be overwriteable.
AllowOverwrite yes
<Directory /home/ftp/*>
<Limit MKD>
AllowAll
</Limit>
</Directory>
DefaultRoot /home/ftp porfillio


Thanx :)

[ 04 October 2001: Message edited by: TheMightyNewbie ]

[slacker_x]

Does his user have write access to the directory that he is trying to create the directory in?

[TheMightyNewbie]

lol..I truly am the mighty newbie. I just created a default user account for my buddy never thinking that that would matter. I bet that's it :)

I'm not sure how to do the permissions and stuff but I'll look into it unless you can tell me an easy way to do it.

Thanx man

[TheMightyNewbie]

Got it working, was the permission issue like you suggested. Found my Linux for Dummies book and learned the chmod and chown commands :)

Thanx again