Pureftpd Access To External Drives

[mildenhall]

I have set up pureftpd on Ubuntu 12.04 and everything works fine on the local drive, but not for my external USB hard disk, /dev/sdb1, /media/GEP.

When I log in to pureftpd I'd just like to see my external USB drive, and nothing else. When I set up a link, or point pureftpd at the drive, I get told I do not have the correct permissions or "not allowed". Is there a way to do this please?

Unfortuately it's partition is FAT32. (I need FAT32 for when I pug it in to *******)

The USB hard disk is mounted and owned by my admin login. Nautilus will not let me change the owner or group to ftpuser or ftpgroup.

TIA

[mildenhall]

sudo mkdir /home/ftpusers/loginname/fakedrivename
sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /home/ftpusers/loginname/fakedrivename

This all works fine, BUT.........

How do I make this permanent?

[Lars Noodén]

You make it permanent by putting an entry for it in /etc/fstab (http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/oneiric/en/man5/fstab.5.html) Compare the output from mount (http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/oneiric/en/man8/mount.8.html) with your current fstab and look at the manual page for fstab to get an idea of how the entry should look. Be sure to make a backup copy of fstab before messing with it.

[mildenhall]

Yep, thanks, I finally worked it out...


/dev/sdb1 /media/GEP vfat umask=0000 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /home/ftpusers/jerry/GEP vfat umask=0000 0 0