> > I have never allowed FTP, SFTP nor SSH access to the server for security > > reasons (other than myself) but this customer wants to directly edit his > > new web site from time to time. > > We had a very similar prob on a machine running many guest hosts on > Linux Vserver. > > It was trivial to set up vsftpd to handle the odd client who required > direct FTP access to their own virtual. The sandboxing capabilities and > security of vsftpd are claimed to be second to none (famous last words?) >
Thanks to all who replied. I have had "fun" looking at the suggestions and trying some of the cpanel type replacements. VHCS http://vhcs.net/ is very good and very complete from what I can see but like a lot of open source stuff, very lacking in documentation. I would have opted for that except that in the absence of really good detailed documentation, I decided that the customers would be as confused as one could possibly get. If I had the luxury of time, I would have put it on a spare machine and written some docos myself, and that may happen yet, but not right now. In the end, I opted for vsftpd in a chrooted environment. Thanks again. Rick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
