>Robert Waldner wrote: >> (This is probably a PAM-question, too, but..) >> >> I just got cyrus to work w/o having system- (eg shell-) accounts, but >> now I need to get ftp to work also :/ >> >> proftpd uses PAM, which is good as there´s pam_userdb.so. This far I´m >> sufficiently clued. But I don´t get how I can tell it to set the >> userdir to, let´s say, /home/$luser/ftp based an the key out of the >> .db-file. On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 08:12:42 EDT, Haim Dimermanas writes: > I strongly suggest you take a look at ProFTPd with the LDAP or MySQL modules. >You can put all your users information in a directory or an SQL database >(homedir, username, pass, etc) and have the FTP server look in there. Hmm, I don´t want to cope with LDAP and/or MySQL just for a bunch of ftp-accounts (~ 30). Flat berkeley-db-files are much more appealing for such small numbers (they´re definitely not supposed to grow, not on this box, it´s just that I´m much more security-aware since it was hacked not long ago). > For more info on how to set it up, take a look at the doc I wrote: > > http://dudle.linuxroot.org/docs/proftpd/ Well-written and, seemingly, quite complete, even if I won´t try that on my box (see above) ;-) cheers, &rw -- / Ing. Robert Waldner | <r.waldner@xsoft.at> \ \ Xsoft GmbH | T: +43 1 796 36 36 692 /
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