>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
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