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Re: ProFTPd and NIS problems



> On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 05:30:25PM -0500, ^chewie wrote:
> > Before I shoot of a bug report to the ProFTPd guys, I was wondering if
> > any of you have run into this one before.  We're using ProFTPd
> > Version 1.2.0pre10, and I've experienced this problem with both the
> > 2.0 and 2.1 packages.
> > 
> > Some users, all users are authenticated via NIS, cannot list the
> > contents of their home directories.  They can manipulate any file in
> > the directory as long as they know what the name of the file is, but
> > the list function fails.  This is a very consistent issue that spans
> > the userbase and multiple groups.  I can't quite find a pattern.
> > 
> > We do use netgroups and NIS distributed passwd/group files.  Home
> > directories are automounted from a network file server.
> > 
> > Any ideas?

>Brandon High wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 03:46:27PM -0700, Jeremy B wrote:
> >       I've experienced similar problems with ProFTPd not honoring the
> > PAM authentication via LDAP and those having to be compiled with the
> > ProFTPd mod_ldap module included... I think it is just bad coding on
> > the part of ProFTPd as everything else seems fine...
> 
> ProFTP has a lot of problems... I wouldn't recommend using it in a situation
> where security is even optional.

Hi,

Well, I would definitely recommand it !

It's so powerful , flexible and secure what do you need more ?

Did you ever had a security issue related to ProFTPD ? Which version do
you use ? Did you checked the fix for the latest security issues ?

Last one was fixed in 2 seconds by adding a DenyFilter \*.*/

Of course there are some minor bugs , but which piece of software don't
?

We're using it since over almost 2 years without any problems.

Cheers,

Philippe.

Lycos Europe.
Paris NOC manager.



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