Server FTP Access Question
 

Hi there,

How big a job is it for a server administrator to give FTP access to an FTP user to their access logs and their awstats directory?

We have a ridiculous situation of an unco-operative admin who manages our server, has the root password and claims not to understand what we are asking for. We just want access to the access logs directory and the awstats directory in FTP.

Any server guys here with SSH/Root experience? We could use someone's help on this.

I can help you ... post your ICQ then I'll contact you :thumbsup

Why would you want to access Awstats via FTP?

My thoughts exactly.

You should be able to access your stats online.

I was thinking the exact same thing.
:upsidedow

Bump for you

You are the most useless person on GFY.

Because it contains .txt files that list all the search keywords neatly. Can someone help me set this up on my server? Im running Gentoo linux.

He now says he will mount read only access to symlinks of those directories (does this mean we dont have the originals?).

PS I dont have ICQ or messenger

every single thread here have LoveSandra post...

No, I symlink is a nickname for the original, similar to a Windows shortcut.
(Though symlinks are smarter than shortcuts - Microsoft always does watered
down versions of what every other OS has, like obscuring files from view rather
than making them inaccessible, and calling that "security".)

win7 does have "smarter" shortcuts than whats avail by default btw, that how their OS links some folders around, i'm pretty sure previous versions also had them. i found out about it when was reading about on moving user profile folders off of C drive.

Can any of you recommend a good server admin who can help me get this done? Probably 3 hours max. Root & SSH skills helpful.

It should be easy enough, and u can download and backup the stats

One question, was your admin outsourced Indian boy?

Nope......

As long as each subdom is already preset under that main owner's permissions/directory, it should be easy as hell. Otherwise, a few minutes with ProFTPd's ACLs should manage fine.

The most common config is to have the .txt files of awstats (mine are actually in /var/www/awstats/) and the apache log files owned by root. That's probably what he has right now. You can change these using the configuration files however I might simply set up a cron job and copy those files to a specific directory accessible by the user instead (and also chown), perhaps overwriting the existing entry unless older entries are needed. Or even better if you just want the keywords set something up to parse the files and merely keep the keyword data you want. Nice and neat. It isn't hard at all. He might even be able to just change the permission on the files to be readable (but not writable) by your user so that the user can easily get them with a simple symlink. I could set something basic up within about 10 minutes. Give your admin this thread to give them ideas.

Yep. That's how it's normally done. Unless something funkariffic is going down :winkwink:

You ask for FTP access and you say the admin does not understand what you are asking for. The admin should know what this thing means. Good luck, RummyBoy.

They do, theyre just being difficult.......

It usually takes me 30 second to create ftp account to targeted directory.

Whats your email addy????

Personally I don't use FTP because it is security nightmare. SCP/SFTP is a much better option if you need to transfer files.

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