Re: Recommended, easy to manage FTP server for Debian Lenny?
On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 12:55:59 +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote:
> Camaleón writes:
>
>> If you need a GUI for user handling, webmin could be an option, as it
>> provides modules for "proftpd" (and "vsftp", IIRC) as well as other FTP
>> servers.
>
> On Debian GNU/Linux Lenny and on Squeeze the command: aptitude search
> webmin give to me no results.
>
> One can download webmin debian package from here:
> http://www.webmin.com/deb.html
>
> Why isn't it in the Debian repository?
http://wiki.debian.org/Webmin
> Is it safe to install it from there?
http://www.webmin.com/deb.html
"Safe"? Dunno, last time I installed from upstream it worked just fine (I
was running openSUSE). But the "safest" solution is manually editing the
configuration files ;-)
> I have tried gforge-ftp-proftpd; I have installed it on my server box
> but then I don't know how to use it?
/usr/share/doc/gforge-ftp-proftpd/README.Debian.gz
But I don't know what the program is aimed for ("gadmin-proftpd" seems to
be a front-end for setting up proftp but the one you mention looks like
another thing) :-?
>> P.S. There was a recently exploit in ProFTPD package, if you are
>> thinking in installing, just ensure you get an unaffected package.
>
> I have installed it on Lenny with command: 'sudo aptitude install
> proftpd' so I think it is unaffected because I trust to Debian
> maintainers that Debian is the most secure operating system, right?
The bug was tracked here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=602769
It seems lenny packages were not affected.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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