Overwrite for user on ftp HPUX 11.0

[Tommy Brown]

I have two users that login ftp one can overwrite and one cannot. The ftpaccess file appears correct. The first user has been active several months. the second user was recently created and need to be able to overwrite files.
lines from fptaccess:

overwrite yes user1,user2
overwrite no guest,anonymous

Any suggestions???
Thanks,
Tommy

[harry d brown jr]

do they belong to the same group (/etc/group)?? what is the permissions and ownerships of the files??

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harry

[Tommy Brown]

Same group and permissions are also identical..

[harry d brown jr]

What about the owner of the files?

Is user2 trying to overwrite a file created by user1??

can you post the permissions of such a file?

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harry

[Tommy Brown]

Harry
Permissions are 755 on the "root" dir, 640 on the files.
The users do not see each others files. The problem occurs when user2 connects and wishes to replace a file in his dir with another of the same name. User2 owns the file he is trying to replace. When we had this problem before, we added user1 to the overwrite yes line. that was successful. Adding user2 to to the same line has not been successful.
Thanks,
Tommy

[Mark Fenton]

can the file be updated on the fly, or does one have to restart inetd to have it reread such things first?

(I ask 'cause I'm ignorant)

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Tommy,

Make this change to your ftpaccess file and try,

overwrite yes real

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Tommy Brown]

Mark, I've tried both ways.
Sanjay, Thanks,
I havenot tried that option before, but no success.

[harry d brown jr · Accepted solution]

Tommy,

FTPACCESS has this format for overwrite:

overwrite yes|no typelist

Allows or disallows the ability to perform the specified function. By default, all users are allowed.

*** typelist *** is a comma-separated list of any of the keywords anonymous, guest and real.

The "TYPELIST" does not allow for user names.
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You are bouncing the ftp server between changes?

Also, up all the logging so you can maybe catch something we aren't seeing:

log commands real


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harry

[Tommy Brown]

Harry, I did do that, but I also had the line:

overwrite no guest, anonymous

evidently, I can only have one specification. This unfortunately gives all of my "real" users the overwrite ability. That may not be such a bad thing, however.
Thanks for the assistance.
Tommy

[Tommy Brown]

Sanjay, I guess you were the one to correct my syntax, but I cannot redo points.
Thanks a lot anyway..
Tommy