[vchkpw] Off Topic: Virtual FTP Server or web-based file manager?
OK, so it's off-topic, but can anyone recommend an FTP server or web- based file manager that I can deploy on my hosting server that either integrates with vpopmail (like maybe Pure-FTPd) and has a nice interface for managing accounts? I only have two IPs for my server, so multiple clients would share the same FTP server. I'm considering having usernames that include domain names for logging in, and thought that QmailAdmin might be a good interface for managing the FTP accounts. Web may be a better way to go, because FTP is already in use by clients for managing their web content. If I use Pure-FTPd or vsftpd, it will need to be configured for both system users and virtual users. A well-designed, web-based file manager would be a great replacement for FTP. A search on SourceForge didn't turn up many promising leads. Lots of stuff that hasn't been maintained since 2004, or has less than 1000 downloads. Any recommendations? -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
Re: [vchkpw] Off Topic: Virtual FTP Server or web-based file manager?
On 2007-08-15, at 0208, Tom Collins wrote: OK, so it's off-topic, but can anyone recommend an FTP server or web-based file manager that I can deploy on my hosting server that either integrates with vpopmail (like maybe Pure-FTPd) and has a nice interface for managing accounts? I only have two IPs for my server, so multiple clients would share the same FTP server. I'm considering having usernames that include domain names for logging in, and thought that QmailAdmin might be a good interface for managing the FTP accounts. Web may be a better way to go, because FTP is already in use by clients for managing their web content. If I use Pure-FTPd or vsftpd, it will need to be configured for both system users and virtual users. A well-designed, web-based file manager would be a great replacement for FTP. A search on SourceForge didn't turn up many promising leads. Lots of stuff that hasn't been maintained since 2004, or has less than 1000 downloads. Any recommendations? no recommendations, but it's starting to give me ideas... and that's a scary thing when you've been up all night. somebody needs to write a qmail-ish FTP server, one which supports the same checkpassword mechanism that qmail's pop3 server uses. think of an ftp-popup program, which runs a checkpassword program (such as vchkpw), which then runs an ftp-server program. the ftp-server program would have support for the standard commands compiled into it, so it doesn't need to fork out and run ls to handle a dir command from the client, and therefore wouldn't need an elaborate jail directory to be created in order to chroot() a user into their $HOME directory. of course, because it would be able to use vchkpw as a checkpassword program, it would work with any authentication mechanism supported by vpopmail... and therefore be manage-able using any GUI which works with vpopmail. i think i'm going to start reading RFC 959... | John M. Simpson--- KG4ZOW ---Programmer At Large | | http://www.jms1.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1656880303867390173 | PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [vchkpw] Off Topic: Virtual FTP Server or web-based file manager?
On Aug 14, 2007, at 11:08 PM, Tom Collins wrote: OK, so it's off-topic, but can anyone recommend an FTP server or web-based file manager that I can deploy on my hosting server that either integrates with vpopmail (like maybe Pure-FTPd) and has a nice interface for managing accounts? I only have two IPs for my server, so multiple clients would share the same FTP server. I'm considering having usernames that include domain names for logging in, and thought that QmailAdmin might be a good interface for managing the FTP accounts. Web may be a better way to go, because FTP is already in use by clients for managing their web content. If I use Pure-FTPd or vsftpd, it will need to be configured for both system users and virtual users. A well-designed, web-based file manager would be a great replacement for FTP. A search on SourceForge didn't turn up many promising leads. Lots of stuff that hasn't been maintained since 2004, or has less than 1000 downloads. Any recommendations? -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/ For Pure-FTPD you can write your own authentication plugin and use it, so you could write it to auth against vpopmail. http://linux.die.net/man/8/pure-authd Bert JW Regeer smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Re: [vchkpw] Off Topic: Virtual FTP Server or web-based file manager?
On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 05:11 -0700, Bert JW Regeer wrote: On Aug 14, 2007, at 11:08 PM, Tom Collins wrote: OK, so it's off-topic, but can anyone recommend an FTP server or web-based file manager that I can deploy on my hosting server that either integrates with vpopmail (like maybe Pure-FTPd) and has a nice interface for managing accounts? I only have two IPs for my server, so multiple clients would share the same FTP server. I'm considering having usernames that include domain names for logging in, and thought that QmailAdmin might be a good interface for managing the FTP accounts. Web may be a better way to go, because FTP is already in use by clients for managing their web content. If I use Pure-FTPd or vsftpd, it will need to be configured for both system users and virtual users. A well-designed, web-based file manager would be a great replacement for FTP. A search on SourceForge didn't turn up many promising leads. Lots of stuff that hasn't been maintained since 2004, or has less than 1000 downloads. Any recommendations? -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/ For Pure-FTPD you can write your own authentication plugin and use it, so you could write it to auth against vpopmail. http://linux.die.net/man/8/pure-authd I believe someone already did. I was chatting with Claus here: http://lists.horde.org/archives/sork/Week-of-Mon-20070618/002718.html About using Horde vacation with vpopmail, and at one point he posted a link to his pureftp config that used vpopmail auth properly. Where mine just used MySQL, and didn't account for a table-per-domain, his would work for any situation. I can't seem to find that post in the thread, nor is it in the Horde Wiki :( But I don't think Claus would mind getting an email Rick Bert JW Regeer
Re: [vchkpw] Off Topic: Virtual FTP Server or web-based file manager?
Have you looked at webmin/usermin? Aside from that, you start looking at blackbox solutions like CPanel. HTH t - Original Message - From: Tom Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vpopmail list vchkpw@inter7.com Sent: Tue Aug 14 23:08:21 2007 Subject: [vchkpw] Off Topic: Virtual FTP Server or web-based file manager? OK, so it's off-topic, but can anyone recommend an FTP server or web-based file manager that I can deploy on my hosting server that either integrates with vpopmail (like maybe Pure-FTPd) and has a nice interface for managing accounts? I only have two IPs for my server, so multiple clients would share the same FTP server. I'm considering having usernames that include domain names for logging in, and thought that QmailAdmin might be a good interface for managing the FTP accounts. Web may be a better way to go, because FTP is already in use by clients for managing their web content. If I use Pure-FTPd or vsftpd, it will need to be configured for both system users and virtual users. A well-designed, web-based file manager would be a great replacement for FTP. A search on SourceForge didn't turn up many promising leads. Lots of stuff that hasn't been maintained since 2004, or has less than 1000 downloads. Any recommendations? -- Tom Collins - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vpopmail - virtual domains for qmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/ QmailAdmin - web interface for Vpopmail: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/
