FTP Strangeness . . .

[riluve]

So I have accessed my RedHat EL 3 server for about a year using FTP (vsftpd). I have an account set up that can basically browse anyplace on the server.

So last night, something froze up and when I re-booted the system, this account can no longer browse deeper than its home directory (using FTP).

What kinda of strange thing may have caused that? Where would I look for a setting to fix this? vsftpd? user permissions?

thnx for any help or direction you can give me.

 

[thedaver]

I wouldn't rule out that your system was hacked.

Otherwise, you should check your vsftpd configuration files.

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[riluve]

Yes, the hacking seems like a distinct possibility, but what would be the purpose of changing my account rights in such a possibly obvious way?

 

[riluve]

Oh, and could you give me a tip of what to look for in the vsftp - well never mind, I guess I need to scour the documentation anyway to try to get more familiar with it.

 

[riluve]

Turns out, the week earlier I was installing RavenCore, A hosting Control panel. It creates a new FTP config during the install.

Thing was, it failed/aborted in the middle of the install and I didn't have time to sort it all out at the time. Appearently it left the config file open for editing.

A few days later, when I noticed my ftpd hung, I called for a system reset - appearently Linux managed to save and close the file during shutdown, giving it a rather current time/date stamp that didn't corrispond to the install from days earlier.

Unfortunately, they didn't bother to comment their changes so with the time date stamp, it did look rather like a hack.