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I have a customer that wants to set up a password-protected FTP site for
site.dom .
They want to set up a guest login for uploading as follows
user: guest
password: <whatever>
How is this done?
Running BSD/OS 4.3.1 .
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In comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc The Doctor <doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> wrote:[color=blue]
> I have a customer that wants to set up a password-protected FTP site for
> site.dom .
>
> They want to set up a guest login for uploading as follows
>
> user: guest
> password: <whatever>
>
> How is this done?
>
> Running BSD/OS 4.3.1 .[/color]
In all operating systems I know detailed instructions are provided
in ftpd(8) or in.ftpd(1M). Perhaps BSD/OS has the first one.
Cheers,
Igor.
[email]igor@nospam.inva[/email]lid wrote:[color=blue]
> In comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc The Doctor <doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> wrote:
>[color=green]
>>I have a customer that wants to set up a password-protected FTP site for
>>site.dom .
>>
>>They want to set up a guest login for uploading as follows
>>
>>user: guest
>>password: <whatever>
>>
>>How is this done?
>>
>>Running BSD/OS 4.3.1 .[/color]
>
>
> In all operating systems I know detailed instructions are provided
> in ftpd(8) or in.ftpd(1M). Perhaps BSD/OS has the first one.
>
> Cheers,
> Igor.[/color]
im not really into that stuff, but all servers can be configured to work
only for local (private) IP addresses. so i would consider that, and
then adding users normal way, and importing them into group that has
access to ftp. this is not maybe a good solution, but that idea came to
me when i saw this post. hope it helps...
In comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc zarko bulatovic <zb10948@oss.unist.hr> wrote:[color=blue]
> [email]igor@nospam.inva[/email]lid wrote:[color=green]
>>
>> In all operating systems I know detailed instructions are provided
>> in ftpd(8) or in.ftpd(1M). Perhaps BSD/OS has the first one.[/color]
>
> im not really into that stuff, but all servers can be configured to work
> only for local (private) IP addresses. so i would consider that, and
> then adding users normal way, and importing them into group that has
> access to ftp. this is not maybe a good solution, but that idea came to
> me when i saw this post. hope it helps...[/color]
If all these servers are in local address spaces, a FTP proxy certainly
is required. But all these servers can run in a single machine with a
public address too (all the servers will be running on the same physical
machine). You will need support in the nameservers for this set up.
Allocating different hostnames to the same canonical name will be required.
Some FTP servers (e.g., wu-ftpd) support virtual FTP users. This is
an ancient reference, but perhaps it is useful (it shows host
virtualisation works):
[url]http://www.westnet.com/providers/multi-wu-ftpd.txt[/url]
Of course, if you were running NetBSD you would have a chance to
configure virtual FTP servers, each listening on separate addresses
as separate names (you can set the hostname to advertise when starting
each FTP listener) using the FTP daemon provided with the operating
system. Each daemon can have its own home directory. As you are
using BSD/OS, the best chance (if the FTP daemon provided with that
BSD/OS release does not support virtual servers) will be using
something like wu-ftpd. I certainly prefer software provided
in the base operating system if it works. In your case, perhaps
wu-ftpd or another FTP daemon with support for virtual hosting will
be required.
If all the users must share a directory you can set the right
permissions on it. In this example, all users in the `staff'
group have rwx permissions on ~/incoming:
ftp> ls
229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||65515|)
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for '/bin/ls'.
total 18
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Mar 23 2005 .notar
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Mar 23 2005 bin
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Mar 23 2005 etc
d--x--x--x 2 root wheel 512 Mar 23 2005 hidden
d-wxrwx--- 2 ftp staff 512 Mar 23 2005 incoming
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Mar 23 2005 lib
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Mar 23 2005 libexec
drwxr-xr-x 2 root staff 512 Mar 23 2005 pub
d-wx------ 2 ftp wheel 512 Mar 23 2005 tmp
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Mar 23 2005 usr
226 Transfer complete.
There is no need to set up groups to restrict access to directories
in the FTP. Indeed, it is not a good approach to virtualisation
of FTP servers.
The key for virtual FTP servers is starting different FTP daemons
each one listening to its own domain name. Check the docs provided
with your operating system to see if it is possible with the FTP
server in BSD/OS. If not, choose a good FTP daemon that supports
these features.
Take care,
Igor.
In comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc [email]igor@nospam.inva[/email]lid wrote:[color=blue]
> If not, choose a good FTP daemon that supports
> these features.[/color]
I am not saying that the FTP server provided with BSD/OS is bad
if it does not support virtualisation; I am saying that you must
choose a good FTP server from the ones available for your operating
system if the server provided with BSD/OS does not support that feature.
All the BSD operating systems have exceptional quality software on the
base systems.
Cheers,
Igor.
In article <newscache$khmani$l2p1$1@news.les.loc>,
Paul Pleshkov <admin@leschat.net> wrote:[color=blue]
>The Doctor wrote:[color=green]
>> I have a customer that wants to set up a password-protected FTP site for
>> site.dom .
>>
>> They want to set up a guest login for uploading as follows
>>
>> user: guest
>> password: <whatever>
>>
>> How is this done?
>>
>> Running BSD/OS 4.3.1 .[/color]
>I'm use ProFTPD + MySQL for Auth users.
>Probably, it's a best choise for web hosting.[/color]
Web hosting? We are talking Virtual FTP.
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In comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc The Doctor <doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> wrote:[color=blue]
> In article <newscache$khmani$l2p1$1@news.les.loc>,
> Paul Pleshkov <admin@leschat.net> wrote:[color=green]
>>I'm use ProFTPD + MySQL for Auth users.
>>Probably, it's a best choise for web hosting.[/color]
>
> Web hosting? We are talking Virtual FTP.[/color]
Mr. Pleshkov is probably using ProFTPD to upload contents to the
web server. From his post, I understand that ProFTPD can be used
to set up a virtual FTP. He says that authenticated users are
using ProFTPD. It seems that he is providing virtual FTP service
to upload contents to virtual web hosts. Once added to the
database, a user has access to his virtual web server using a
virtual FTP server.
Cheers,
Igor.