Need help swith setting up a vsftp server on Suse 10.0

I'm running an old
Compaq ProLiant ML350 server
with 128 MB RAM
Novell Suse 10.0 (OpenSuse)

I'm not a total(!) newbie to Linux, but definitely no expert.
I have no experience with vsftp.

What's the idea? I have to set up a data area in the server where all
the consultants of my company can access their files centrally.
So, I do not want to give them home directories (well I have to) but
only access to the /dat/ subdirectory. Nowhere else on that server.

Can anyone point me to some documentation (besides the vsftp docs) that
tell me how to do this?

I have set up the server according to the install instructions in the vsftp

What I did was:
- add the users. (one for myself - ppj)
- create a new group and make them all members.
- made myself owner of the /dat/subdir

- give the group read rights to the /dat/ subdirectory.(drwxr-----)

- give the group rwx rights to the subdirectories of the /dat/ dir.
- give other people no rights at all. (drwxrwx---)

I must be doing something wrong, because when I log in as one of the
other users, then I cannot acces the /dat/ directory.
what am I overlooking?

Peter-Paul
Rijswijk, The Netherlands

Peter Paul Jansen schreef:
> I'm running an old
> Compaq ProLiant ML350 server
> with 128 MB RAM
> Novell Suse 10.0 (OpenSuse)
>
> I'm not a total(!) newbie to Linux, but definitely no expert.
> I have no experience with vsftp.
>
> What's the idea? I have to set up a data area in the server where all
> the consultants of my company can access their files centrally.
> So, I do not want to give them home directories (well I have to) but
> only access to the /dat/ subdirectory. Nowhere else on that server.
>
> Can anyone point me to some documentation (besides the vsftp docs) that
> tell me how to do this?
>
> I have set up the server according to the install instructions in the vsftp
>
> What I did was:
> - add the users. (one for myself - ppj)
> - create a new group and make them all members.
> - made myself owner of the /dat/subdir
>
> - give the group read rights to the /dat/ subdirectory.(drwxr-----)
>
> - give the group rwx rights to the subdirectories of the /dat/ dir.
> - give other people no rights at all. (drwxrwx---)
>
> I must be doing something wrong, because when I log in as one of the
> other users, then I cannot acces the /dat/ directory.
> what am I overlooking?
>
> Peter-Paul
> Rijswijk, The Netherlands

Something else:

I connect as ppj.
ppj is the owner of /dat/ (740)
and of the underling directory /dat/test/ (770)
when I copy a file from my local network to the directory test it gets
the permissions (600)
Is this supposed to happen ?

TIA

Peter-Paul