Permissions Question

[Jeremy Fowler]

> I appreciate everyone's input regarding security... the server in question
> is only accessible through our LAN and nobody even really knows it's there.
> So I'm not worried.

Well, do you completely trust 100% of all of your local LAN users? How sure are
you that someone isn't scanning your LAN from a local workstation looking for
telnet passwords? Even if all your users don't know a port scanner from a packet
sniffer, how sure are you that your company won't hire someone who does in the
future?

> Unrelated question: When I ftp in to the server, I use a user I created
> called Webmaster. He has ownership and rights to all the appropriate
> directories (/var/www). But, when I ftp in, I end up in /home/webmaster and
> have to climb up and over to the right directory.

Change the home directory for the webmaster user in /etc/passwd from
/home/webmaster to /var/www.

> Plus, when I try to use a webcam client to auto-upload pictures of our call
> center, it's unable to ftp into the appropriate directories.

Setup another user for your webcam program and make it's home directory where
ever you need the pictures to be uploaded.

> How to I set the ftp daemon to understand that I want the files put into
> /var/www/html and not /home/webmaster?

See above.