Pure-ftpd Read-only user on external drive

[smithmart]

Hello there,

Sorry to say my first post is a plea for help!

I have a Pure-ftpd server setup, all is working perfectly to the users home dir. But I would like to allow access to an external drive as read-only.

I have been able to give access to the drive as pure's setting are crazy easy. but because its an external drive the permission are set at read-write and there seems to be no way to change it.

I don't mind if the only way is to make this user completly read-only, even to the their home dir, but there also doesnt seem to be an option for this.

Many thanks for any help.

Mart

 

[smithmart]

Might give someone an idea. I found this on an ubuntu forum for a similar setup.

mount -t unionfs -o dirs=/rodir=rw:/soucedir=ro none /targetdir
where /rodir is an empty directory the user doesn't have right to write, /sourcedir is the original directory with writeable data that shouldn't be written, /targetdir is the directory where /sourcedir will appear as read-only.

This command doesn't work on the mac, but I'm guessing the theory is right but the syntax isn't.
Can anyone see why this wouldn't work, I did have a look into "man Mount" and tried a few different variations, but it didn't help

Cheers
Mart

 

[smithmart]

mount rdonly

Hello again... a thread started and ended by me!

Thought i'd post my solution seeing as someone may be looking for the same thing, and it may help.

I have ended up mounted the external drive manually as read only. This works for me as I don'd want anyone writing to this drive.

terminal:
sudo mount_msdos -o rdonly /dev/disk1s1 /Volumes/external

You can then add this drive via the pureftp-manager to any ftp user you want.

Mart