ftp/sftp

[Rick Stevens]

karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote:
>>The /var/www/html directory must be writable by user ID 48 or by their
>>group.  I'll bet the /var/www/html/cmc directory was owned by their old
>>UID.
> 
> 
> Nope, I checked all that before even changing the home directory for their
> login. Everything all the way down the filesystem is chmod apache.apache.
> 
> I checked ftpusers, ftpaccess and nothing there is limiting apache/client
> user from accessing anything in /var/www/html.

Did you also check the group permissions?  That may be blocking it.
You may also want to watch the logs (/var/log/xferlog and
/var/log/messages) to see if there's a clue there.

90% of these problems are user or group privileges on either the
directories in question or their parents.
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