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Subject: Re: 1.5.24 Odd ProFTPD Permission Listing Problem
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Ok, I have figured it out and it was really simple. The admin account
owned the ftp directory. Once I switched the ownership of the directory
to the other user, the nlist command started to work. I find it strange
that the ls and dir commands would work, but not the nlist command. But
at least it is fixed now.

Thanks for the help.

Ron

On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 20:55, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> Carlo Florendo wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > If that does not work, try running proftpd as power user.  Try looking
> > at /usr/share/doc/proftpd-<version>/ for additional documentation, or
> > scourge the web, on how to run proftpd as power user.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> I'd recommend against doing this unless the only user you plan to ftp in
> as is this same user.  On XP, SYSTEM is the right user to run the service as
> for general usage.  Of course, for debugging purposes, you can try anything
> you like to see if it sheds light on the problem.  But if it's a permission
> problem that's cleared up by running the service as a regular user, I can
> only surmise that the problem has to do with network shares.  If that's the
> case, and your cygcheck output doesn't hint that it is, see:
> 
> <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.using.shares>
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