From owner-freebsd-security Sat Feb 3 19:18:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [194.221.183.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D626A37B491 for ; Sat, 3 Feb 2001 19:18:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 9640 invoked by uid 0); 4 Feb 2001 03:18:32 -0000 Received: from p3ee21645.dip.t-dialin.net (HELO speedy.gsinet) (62.226.22.69) by mail.gmx.net (mail01) with SMTP; 4 Feb 2001 03:18:32 -0000 Received: (from sittig@localhost) by speedy.gsinet (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA22346 for freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 3 Feb 2001 21:23:21 +0100 Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 21:23:21 +0100 From: Gerhard Sittig To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ftp Message-ID: <20010203212321.P253@speedy.gsinet> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org References: <20010203215308.G1412@ramses.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20010203215308.G1412@ramses.local>; from haribeau@gmx.de on Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 09:53:08PM +0100 Organization: System Defenestrators Inc. Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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) ... :) virtually yours 82D1 9B9C 01DC 4FB4 D7B4 61BE 3F49 4F77 72DE DA76 Gerhard Sittig true | mail -s "get gpg key" Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net -- If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message