[vchkpw] vpopmail + vsftpd + multiple domains
Hi guys, Another thrilling question; Has anyone already set up vsftpd using virtual users + multiple domains? I've read the virtual users hints, but they only mention one fixed directory for the virtual ftp users, whilst I need every virtual user have its home directory pointing to his own domain. This home directory is not /home/username, but /server/www/domainname. Is this doable? Note that I am an absolute noob on scripting or programming, so saying 'write a script doing this or that' wont help me a bit. Maybe there are docs available that I can me directed to? Oh, before I forget, I use vpopmail 5.4.3 + courier-iman (latest) + qnetmail-1.05 + squirrelmail 1.4.2, and I dont use PAM (do I need to?) -Patrick
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail + vsftpd + multiple domains
Another thrilling question; Has anyone already set up vsftpd using virtual users + multiple domains? I've read the virtual users hints, but they only mention one fixed directory for the virtual ftp users, whilst I need every virtual user have its home directory pointing to his own domain. This home directory is not /home/username, but /server/www/domainname. Is this doable? Note Well, I have never used vsftpd but it stills being a simple FTPd. There's no need from my point of view of any vhost handling on FTPd's because you can simply have a user four each domain, i.e: user1 - domain: squirrelmail.org user: sqrmail pass: mydumbpass home: /server/www/squirrelmail.org user2 - domaim: thecure.com user: rsmith pass: disintegration home: /anypath/youdlike/as/long/as/it/has/user/permissions Since all the domains will be accessing the same IP's, having the user go to squirrelmail.org or thecure.com -asuming these are your virtual domains, of course are not but, I'm just using them as an example- will be transparent and the system will separate -is this a real word? heheh- them from each other perfectly Juan
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail + vsftpd + multiple domains
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another thrilling question; Has anyone already set up vsftpd using virtual users + multiple domains? I've read the virtual users hints, but they only mention one fixed directory for the virtual ftp users, whilst I need every virtual user have its home directory pointing to his own domain. This home directory is not /home/username, but /server/www/domainname. Is this doable? Note Well, I have never used vsftpd but it stills being a simple FTPd. There's no need from my point of view of any vhost handling on FTPd's because you can simply have a user four each domain, i.e: user1 - domain: squirrelmail.org user: sqrmail pass: mydumbpass home: /server/www/squirrelmail.org user2 - domaim: thecure.com user: rsmith pass: disintegration home: /anypath/youdlike/as/long/as/it/has/user/permissions Since all the domains will be accessing the same IP's, having the user go to squirrelmail.org or thecure.com -asuming these are your virtual domains, of course are not but, I'm just using them as an example- will be transparent and the system will separate -is this a real word? heheh- them from each other perfectly Juan This will work, ofcourse, but that would make vpopmail obsolete. I just might as well make system users then. I want the virtual users to chroot to their domain directory automagically. And what about people who manage their own domain and decide to add a virtual user through qmailadmin for administrative (ftp) purposes?
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail + vsftpd + multiple domains
This will work, ofcourse, but that would make vpopmail obsolete. I just might as well make system users then. I want the virtual users to chroot to their domain directory automagically. And what about people who manage their own domain and decide to add a virtual user through qmailadmin for administrative (ftp) purposes? One magical word... LDAP :D Juan
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail + vsftpd + multiple domains
This will work, ofcourse, but that would make vpopmail obsolete. I just might as well make system users then. I want the virtual users to chroot to their domain directory automagically. And what about people who manage their own domain and decide to add a virtual user through qmailadmin for administrative (ftp) purposes? BTW, why would that make vpopmail obsolete? I dont understand. vpopmail handles the mail ant the system itself handles the users... Juan
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail + vsftpd + multiple domains
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This will work, ofcourse, but that would make vpopmail obsolete. I just might as well make system users then. I want the virtual users to chroot to their domain directory automagically. And what about people who manage their own domain and decide to add a virtual user through qmailadmin for administrative (ftp) purposes? BTW, why would that make vpopmail obsolete? I dont understand. vpopmail handles the mail ant the system itself handles the users... Juan Because I want to use the same virtual users handled by vpopmail for ftp usage. I dont want to manually create ftp accounts for users who already exsist virtually. I know that vpopmail is for mail purposes, but I should be able to access the vpopmail user database from within vsftpd? They mention PAM as authentication, but I am totally clueless on that...
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail + vsftpd + multiple domains
Because I want to use the same virtual users handled by vpopmail for ftp usage. I dont want to manually create ftp accounts for users who already exsist virtually. I know that vpopmail is for mail purposes, but I should be able to access the vpopmail user database from within vsftpd? They mention PAM as authentication, but I am totally clueless on that... RTFM, There is an example of virtual users setup in the EXAMPLE directory. You might take a look at purftpd also.
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail + vsftpd + multiple domains
JB wrote: Because I want to use the same virtual users handled by vpopmail for ftp usage. I dont want to manually create ftp accounts for users who already exsist virtually. I know that vpopmail is for mail purposes, but I should be able to access the vpopmail user database from within vsftpd? They mention PAM as authentication, but I am totally clueless on that... RTFM, There is an example of virtual users setup in the EXAMPLE directory. You might take a look at purftpd also. You might want to concider reading the full thread before advising me doing something I already DID! The example you are pointing to uses one fixed dir, while I want virtual users have their home dir pointed to their virtual domain home dir. Also I dont want to create system accounts for every virtual user
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail + vsftpd + multiple domains
You might want to concider reading the full thread before advising me doing something I already DID! The example you are pointing to uses one fixed dir, while I want virtual users have their home dir pointed to their virtual domain home dir. Also I dont want to create system accounts for every virtual user Then maybe you should go back and read it again or go ask on the vsftp list.
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail + vsftpd + multiple domains
JB wrote: You might want to concider reading the full thread before advising me doing something I already DID! The example you are pointing to uses one fixed dir, while I want virtual users have their home dir pointed to their virtual domain home dir. Also I dont want to create system accounts for every virtual user Then maybe you should go back and read it again or go ask on the vsftp list. Or maybe you could explain it to me because I am currently googling on the subject and there is a whole shitload of people asking the same question, but nobody seems to have the solution
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail + vsftpd + multiple domains
Or maybe you could explain it to me because I am currently googling on the subject and there is a whole shitload of people asking the same question, but nobody seems to have the solution I would setup pam to use the same ldap or mysql database as vpopmail. Unless you have the time and inclination to explore the subject and do-it-yourself, You might find it easier to use purftpd from http://purftpd.org/.
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail + vsftpd + multiple domains
JB wrote: Or maybe you could explain it to me because I am currently googling on the subject and there is a whole shitload of people asking the same question, but nobody seems to have the solution I would setup pam to use the same ldap or mysql database as vpopmail. Unless you have the time and inclination to explore the subject and do-it-yourself, You might find it easier to use purftpd from http://purftpd.org/. Thanks, I'll go for Pam. Could come in handy for future alterations as well I guess
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail + vsftpd + multiple domains
JB wrote: Or maybe you could explain it to me because I am currently googling on the subject and there is a whole shitload of people asking the same question, but nobody seems to have the solution I would setup pam to use the same ldap or mysql database as vpopmail. Unless you have the time and inclination to explore the subject and do-it-yourself, You might find it easier to use purftpd from http://purftpd.org/. Can you clue me in on what pam auth I should use? there is a whole bunch of libs in /libs/security; dont know which one uses vpopmail
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail + vsftpd + multiple domains
On Wednesday 02 June 2004 07:46 am, JB wrote: Or maybe you could explain it to me because I am currently googling on the subject and there is a whole shitload of people asking the same question, but nobody seems to have the solution I don't really understand how any of this really has anything to do with vpopmail... sounds like you're needing help configuring your ftp server, which, last I knew, was not what this list was for... but I could be wrong ;) I would setup pam to use the same ldap or mysql database as vpopmail. Unless you have the time and inclination to explore the subject and do-it-yourself, You might find it easier to use purftpd from http://purftpd.org/. I assume you mean pure-ftpd from http://pureftpd.org yes, it has vpopmail support. It's also muy sexy. -Jeremy -- Jeremy Kitchen ++ Systems Administrator ++ Inter7 Internet Technologies, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ www.inter7.com ++ 866.528.3530 ++ 847.492.0470 int'l kitchen @ #qmail #gentoo on EFnet ++ scriptkitchen.com/qmail
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail + vsftpd + multiple domains
Jeremy Kitchen wrote: On Wednesday 02 June 2004 07:46 am, JB wrote: Or maybe you could explain it to me because I am currently googling on the subject and there is a whole shitload of people asking the same question, but nobody seems to have the solution I don't really understand how any of this really has anything to do with vpopmail... sounds like you're needing help configuring your ftp server, which, last I knew, was not what this list was for... but I could be wrong ;) You are partly right; it is about vsftpd. On the other hand, I'd like to use vpopmail's vchkpwd module as authenticator so I can use the virtual users from qmail, who, in fact, will be the ftp users. So basically I'd like to know how to (ab)use vpopmail pam auth in vsftpd. Supposedly vsftpd supports pam authentication, so according to my limited intelect it should be possible to use vchkpw...right? I dont know anything (yet) about pam, so forgive my ignorance if this is a trivial question :P -Patrick
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail + vsftpd + multiple domains
On Wednesday 02 June 2004 11:37 am, Patrick Donker wrote: I don't really understand how any of this really has anything to do with vpopmail... sounds like you're needing help configuring your ftp server, which, last I knew, was not what this list was for... but I could be wrong ;) You are partly right; it is about vsftpd. On the other hand, I'd like to use vpopmail's vchkpwd module as authenticator so I can use the virtual users from qmail, who, in fact, will be the ftp users. So basically I'd like to know how to (ab)use vpopmail pam auth in vsftpd. Supposedly vsftpd supports pam authentication, so according to my limited intelect it should be possible to use vchkpw...right? I dont know anything (yet) about pam, so forgive my ignorance if this is a trivial question :P pam as in .. unix pam.. it's true that vpopmail is, by definition a pam as in a pluggable authentication module, however I don't believe it can interface with the UNIX pam services. -Jeremy -- Jeremy Kitchen ++ Systems Administrator ++ Inter7 Internet Technologies, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ www.inter7.com ++ 866.528.3530 ++ 847.492.0470 int'l kitchen @ #qmail #gentoo on EFnet ++ scriptkitchen.com/qmail
Re: [vchkpw] vpopmail + vsftpd + multiple domains
Jeremy Kitchen wrote: On Wednesday 02 June 2004 11:37 am, Patrick Donker wrote: I don't really understand how any of this really has anything to do with vpopmail... sounds like you're needing help configuring your ftp server, which, last I knew, was not what this list was for... but I could be wrong ;) You are partly right; it is about vsftpd. On the other hand, I'd like to use vpopmail's vchkpwd module as authenticator so I can use the virtual users from qmail, who, in fact, will be the ftp users. So basically I'd like to know how to (ab)use vpopmail pam auth in vsftpd. Supposedly vsftpd supports pam authentication, so according to my limited intelect it should be possible to use vchkpw...right? I dont know anything (yet) about pam, so forgive my ignorance if this is a trivial question :P pam as in .. unix pam.. it's true that vpopmail is, by definition "a pam" as in a pluggable authentication module, however I don't believe it can interface with the UNIX pam services. -Jeremy I bet you have put this on the very top of your to-do list then :)
