ftp server recomendation?

sean sean at emvis.net
Thu Mar 2 18:40:54 MST 2006


I hate responding to myself but it seems odd that you are having trouble 
getting proftpd to work with pam ... there's a full readme on the 
subject if you google proftpd pam.  Are there any error messages you can 
share?

--sean

sean wrote:

> Proftpd does all this I think.  I'm really super satisfied with our 
> setup.
>
> --sean
>
> Mike Garfias wrote:
>
>> I'm in need of an ftpd that doesn't suck.
>>
>> Must haves:     PAM support - it has to play nicely with pam_pgsql
>>     Configurable (I want to chroot the ftpd to a specific dir)
>>     must be able to turn anon OFF
>>     must be able restrict user logins to only a couple of sessions
>>     must run from inetd (acutally xinetd, but whatever)
>>
>> I've tried pure-ftpd, and it blew up saying it couldn't set 
>> capabilities.
>> Some kernel issue here, and I'm not going to rebuild a kernel on a 
>> production
>> system cuz the ftpd isn't happy.
>>
>> I've also tried proftpd - it absolutely refuses to try and auth 
>> against pam.
>>
>> Vsftp wasn't very granular, and had issues with pam and chroot() 
>> stuff (it was
>> TOO locked down).
>>
>> Anything else I can try?
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