anonymous ftp access restrictions

[jechter]

i have set up an anonymous ftp server on my mac to share some of my files to the public. i have created an ftp user, set up an ftp directory with the required subdirectories, etc. all the files in the ftp directory belong to myself. i had set up the files and subdirectories in the ~ftp/pub directory as rwxr-xr-x, assuming that anonymous ftp users would not be able to change anything here. however i was just made aware of the fact that anyone had full write access to my pub directory. i had to change the pub directory to r-xr-xr-x - so i can no longer change anything in the finder! why is this? any suggestions for a setup to let others access my files read-only, while still giving me full read/write access?

thanks in advance,

jonas

[Nalmar]

What you wrote there in very similar to my setup any it work perfectly for me. Are you sure your pub directory is owned by you and not ftp ? ( ls -l in terminal in the /Users/ftp folder ) and that only the owner has full rights ?

go to /User folder
chown -R [youruser] ftp
chmod -R 755 ftp

after that, if your anonymous user still have write access somewhere, something is definetly wrong.

[jechter]

the problem was that the user ftp had the same uid than myself. (i created the user in netinfo by copying my user, and modifying the necessary fields. obviously i forgot about the uid field).

jonas