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Setting up Proftpd in debian
Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:36 pm
by a94060
Would anyone know a good guide that would show me how to set up an FTP server on Debian? I would also like to know if any1 knows how i could read and/or write to an NTFS partition to my linux computer?
Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 1:14 pm
by timvw
Where have you already looked?
I find
http://www.debian.org/doc/ an excellent starting point.[/img]
Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 7:23 pm
by a94060
i have looked at
http://www.castaglia.org/proftpd/doc/co ... O-SQL.html and a guide at howtoforge.net
i wil lcheck out the debian docs. basically i want to set up proftpd with authentication comnig from a mysql DB
Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 7:24 pm
by a94060
i checked the docs and stuff,i tried multiple guides. What i want to do is install proftpd and i want it get the list of users and passwords from the mysql database. the database name is ftp, the username is proftpd pass is proftpd.
Proftpd.conf
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#
# /etc/proftpd.conf -- This is a basic ProFTPD configuration file.
# To really apply changes reload proftpd after modifications.
#
ServerName "Debian"
ServerType standalone
DeferWelcome off
MultilineRFC2228 on
DefaultServer on
ShowSymlinks on
TimeoutNoTransfer 600
TimeoutStalled 600
TimeoutIdle 1200
DisplayLogin welcome.msg
DisplayFirstChdir .message
ListOptions "-l"
DenyFilter \*.*/
DefaultRoot /ftp
<Limit LOGIN>
Order deny,allow
AllowGroup ftpusers
</Limit>
# Uncomment this if you are using NIS or LDAP to retrieve passwords:
#PersistentPasswd off
# Uncomment this if you would use TLS module:
#TLSEngine on
# Uncomment this if you would use quota module:
#Quotas on
# Uncomment this if you would use ratio module:
#Ratios on
# Port 21 is the standard FTP port.
Port 21
# To prevent DoS attacks, set the maximum number of child processes
# to 30. If you need to allow more than 30 concurrent connections
# at once, simply increase this value. Note that this ONLY works
# in standalone mode, in inetd mode you should use an inetd server
# that allows you to limit maximum number of processes per service
# (such as xinetd)
MaxInstances 30
# Set the user and group that the server normally runs at.
User nobody
Group nogroup
# Umask 022 is a good standard umask to prevent new files and dirs
# (second parm) from being group and world writable.
Umask 022 022
# Normally, we want files to be overwriteable.
AllowOverwrite on
# Delay engine reduces impact of the so-called Timing Attack described in
# http://security.lss.hr/index.php?page=details&ID=LSS-2004-10-02
# It is on by default.
#DelayEngine off
AuthPam off
RequireValidShell off
SQLAuthTypes Crypt Backend
SQLAuthenticate on
SQLConnectInfo proftpd@localhost proftpd proftpd
SQLUserInfo users userid passwd uid gid homedir shell
SQLGroupInfo groups groupid gid members
SQLDefaultHomedir ~
SQLDefaultGID 998
SQLDefaultUID 998
SQLHomedirOnDemand on
SQLLogFile /var/log/proftpd.sql_log
# Count number of logins for each user
SQLLog PASS logincount
SQLNamedQuery logincount UPDATE "login_count=login_count+1 WHERE userid='%u'" users
# Save last login
SQLLog PASS lastlogin
SQLNamedQuery lastlogin UPDATE "last_login=now() WHERE userid='%u'" users
# Count number of bytes/files downloaded and uploaded
SQLLog RETR dlbytescount
SQLNamedQuery dlbytescount UPDATE "dl_bytes=dl_bytes+%b WHERE userid='%u'" users
SQLLog RETR dlcount
SQLNamedQuery dlcount UPDATE "dl_count=dl_count+1 WHERE userid='%u'" users
SQLLog STOR ulbytescount
SQLNamedQuery ulbytescount UPDATE "ul_bytes=ul_bytes+%b WHERE userid='%u'" users
SQLLog STOR ulcount
SQLNamedQuery ulcount UPDATE "ul_count=ul_count+1 WHERE userid='%u'" users
# Do not let disabled or expired users to login
SQLUserWhereClause "disabled!=1 and (NOW()<=expires or expires=-1 or expires='0000-00-00 00:00:00')"
# Log file/dir access
ExtendedLog /var/log/proftpd.access_log WRITE,READ write
# Record all logins
ExtendedLog /var/log/proftpd.auth_log AUTH auth
# Paranoia logging level....
ExtendedLog /var/log/proftpd.paranoid_log ALL default
if somebody could,can they tell me whats wrong or what i should do? i have searched many times and im getting really irritated with this.