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Date:      Thu, 2 May 2002 19:23:29 +0100
From:      Kevin Golding <kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk>
To:        Justyn <dragon@dlance.com>
Cc:        freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Good Ftp Daemon
Message-ID:  <TU8gmCBhQY08EwqQ@caomhin.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <3CD0C7EC.5060707@dlance.com>
References:  <3CD0C7EC.5060707@dlance.com>

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Someone, quite probably you, once wrote:
>Can anyone recomend a good ftp daemon that a newbie would be able to 
>compile without any major difficultly? I just need something to restrict 
>users to their own home dir. Please send any replies to me because Im 
>not on the list yet.

ProFTPD is in the ports:
# cd /usr/ports/net/proftpd
# make
# make install

Watch the output carefully here.  At the end of all the ports is a
little message that gives you extra information about what you've just
installed.  With ProFTPD you have to make a couple of changes to your
/etc/pam.conf for example.

# make clean

You now have a good FTP daemon installed.  :-)

If you want to restrict access to just the user directory then read the
very good documentation at http://www.proftpd.org/  It's pretty easy but
you'd do well to read up on what you've got installed.  Basically you
end up with a DocumentRoot set to ~ and then it's impossible for people
to roam outside their home directory.

Kevin,
      just stating an opinion
-- 
kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk

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