Page 1 of 1

track FTP logins

Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 5:11 pm
by ramsei
cpanel tracks the ip of the last login but it won't log an FTP login using a FTP program, right? Therefore, how could I track who has been logging into my web site? I have shared hosting.

How could I achieve this ? Maybe programming something using cron? Any ideas?

Re: track FTP logins

Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 5:13 pm
by alex.barylski
Ask the hos provider for logs? Can you configure anything like custom log locations in CPanel?

The best solution would be to use a web based file manager and intercept events that way.

Re: track FTP logins

Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 5:16 pm
by josh
Sweet idea. I googled and found http://nanoftpd.sourceforge.net/

Re: track FTP logins

Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 2:19 am
by Chris Corbyn
The FTP daemon should be writing a log entry whenever someone logs in. I'd be surprised if cPanel isn't reading that log file.