Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 21:23:21 +0100 From: Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net> To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ftp Message-ID: <20010203212321.P253@speedy.gsinet> In-Reply-To: <20010203215308.G1412@ramses.local>; from haribeau@gmx.de on Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 09:53:08PM %2B0100 References: <NEBBIEGPMLMKDBMMICFNOEOPECAA.mit@mitayai.net> <Pine.BSF.4.31.0102021515530.2589-100000@epsilon.lucida.ca> <20010203215308.G1412@ramses.local>
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On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 21:53 +0100, Clemens Hermann wrote:
>
> At the moment I am using proftpd because I really need the
> virtual-user feature. With this I can avoid the transmission of
> system-passwords via ftp. Any user is a pseudo-uid in the
> proftpd users file. This is - in my opinion - a really good
> thing for ftp because so you can keep you system
> users/passwords secret. Anyway I would appreciate it a lot if
> I could switch to the normal FreeBSD ftpd. Is there one way to
> get something like the virtual proftpd users to run with ftpd?
$ grep ftp /etc/inetd.conf
$ ldd /usr/libexec/ftpd
It supports PAM. This should allow you to authenticate users
against any form of textfile, database or network daemon. It's
just that you had to examine this yourself since I never tried
and thus cannot tell for sure how well it works (don't use ftp at
all around here) ... :)
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