I google’d a lot and found no sufficient solution to the rather common problem.
So here’s the required configurations to place inside /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf
I noticed, that proFTPd has to run in standalone mode,
because when running as xinetd service… only chgrp works, but not chown.
ServerType Standalone
This one switches the capabilities module on and enables the execution of chown():
<IfModule mod_cap.c> CapabilitiesEngine on CapabilitiesSet +CAP_CHOWN </IfModule>
In order to define which user/group shall been set on file creation…
proFTPd uses Umask for defining the permissions (which subtract from octal permissions).
The first mask are the permissions for files, the second mask are the ones for directories.
<Directory /var/www> UserOwner www-data GroupOwner www-data Umask 002 003 </Directory>
Then restart the server and hope it works:
service proftpd restart
Of course the ftp-user may require membership in group www-data:
adduser ftpusername usermod -g www-data ftpusername
proFTPd Documentation Quicklink:
