TomatoUSB

Trying to set up Access controls on User Accounts on Shibby 107 and I've found the Access settings do not affect ability to read or write. I always get permission denied errors.

I notice that vsftpd.users/<user> file is not being configured properly - download_enable=yes and write_enable=yes are not being written to the file when Access is set to Read/Write. If I add these manually then read and write access is permitted.

I don't know if this was working in 105 as I've only enabled FTP since upgrading to 107 yesterday.

Same here! Seems to be a software bug.

I can change the vsftpd.users/<user> file so that it will work. But after each "Save" on the FTP-Page i have no read/write access anymore.

Hello, sorry for the ignorance but how can I update the vsftpd or make a custom setting so that a single user can read/write in ftp mode?

At the bottom of page "USB and NAS/FTP Server" you can specify a user with username, password, access rights and root directory.

But as mentionend before this is not working properly right now … at least with version 107.

Thans is a known bug

Thanks! Good to know.

Does anybody have any idea when it will be fixed, or how to at least work around it, so that I have FTP access?

Just do, as Tony said:

open ssh connection to tomato (using putty)

cd /etc/vsftp.users/
nano <username>

add the lines:
download_enable=yes
write_enable=yes

ctrl+x for saving

done.

(You need to install optware first, if you want to edit directly on the router)

After some trials i found the following solution being the most convinient, by this way FTP access also is working after router reboot, and you neither need to install additional tools, nor transfer config files to the router:

Just Open te WebInterface and go to: Administration -> Scripts -> WAN Up

Paste the following two lines there (where <username> of course is the name of the FTP account you want to give access):

echo "download_enable=yes" » /etc/vsftpd.users/<username>
echo "write_enable=yes" » /etc/vsftpd.users/<username>

That's all, you don't need to pay attention to my prevous post, maybe some mod can delete that!

Bye :)