[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/3] vsftpd: Add ftp user creation

[Maxime Hadjinlian]

Hi Yann, all

On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
wrote:

> Maxime, All,
>
> On 2015-10-04 15:44 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> > On Sun,  4 Oct 2015 15:31:34 +0200, Maxime Hadjinlian wrote:
> > > +#
> > > +# VSFTPD won't work if the jail directory is writable, it has to be
> readable
> > > +# only
> > > +# Otherwise you get the following error:
> > > +# 500 OOPS: vsftpd: refusing to run with writable root inside chroot()
> > > +# That's why we have to chmod /home/ftp
> > > +define VSFTPD_FIX_HOME_PERMISSIONS
> > > +   $(INSTALL) -d -m 555 $(TARGET_DIR)/home/ftp
> > > +endef
> >
> > Can we use VSFTPD_PERMISSIONS instead ? The only drawback is that you
> > will have to set a fixed UID/GID for ftp:ftp in VSFTPD_USERS.
>
> Canyoucheck if it is possible to:
>   - check if it is possible to create a premission table with no UID or
>     GID, only a mode,
>   - if so:
>     - move the mkuser script call before th makedev call in fs/common.mk
>     - use a permission table as suggested by Thomas.
>
> If it's not possible to not specify UID/GID in a permission table, then
> we'll have to do with your solution.
>
> Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work, I get the following error:
makedevs: unknown group name: -


> Thanks.
>
> Regards,
> Yann E. MORIN.
>
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