On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 21:24 +0100, Marcel Janssen wrote: > Hi Les, > > I haven't used proftpd for a while. Does it have any security > > options (like not running as root or living in a chroot jail) > > that would keep it from reading your shadow password file? > > Yes, it doesn't run as root and can live in a chroot jail. > > > And out of curiosity, why are you using it instead of vsftpd? > > When I read through the config of vsftp I didn't see whether I could do the > following with it : > > 1) I need to allow login only for local known users and need all to have > read/write access but limited only to the ftp directory when accessed over > ftp. > 2) I need the port of the ftp server to be different than 21 > > Perhaps I haven't checked out vsftp well enough though. If it's possible to do > this with vsftp than I'd like to know. > I think it does all you ask. Read the man page and /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf for information. Pretty powerful, can allow one or none to access anywhere except a specified chroot directory, etc. By default any users allowed are chrooted to their home directory, but that is easily configured to do what you ask. > regards, > Marcel > >
