Setting Up wuftpd for Non-Anonymous Accounts

Is this article helpful for you, the webmaster? Would you like to see more articles like this dealing with Unix (or other OS) system administration? Anything in particular?

Or, should we just stick to building web pages?

Thanks for your input!

Hello,

More admin articles would be great, if you could deal with issues related to virtual host, i.e. configuring BIND, how to set up Sendmail for virtual domains. Also information convering security on Unix would be great.

Just a suggestion,
Andrew

After reading your article on setting up non-anonymous FTP access, I found myself wondering why I didn\'t find this sooner. I managed to implement a stop gap measure that works, but not to the level of elegance you have achieved.

I wanted to thank you first off. Secondly, do you have psychic friends working there?

More admin articles? You bet.

Thanks again.

We definitely need more articles like
this. They do make work so much easier
and as for clients, very happy!!

I second that bit about BIND. Some tutorials on that would be nice. You know, "Manage your own DNS.." that sort of thing! I\'ve looked high and low for such a beast -- haven\'t seen it! Love what I see here so far though. Keep it up!

I concor, more admin articles would be great. Some more advanced PHP and MySQL stuff would be great too.

Geert-Jan

While wu-ftpd does let you chroot users, it\'s many times more complex to implement than some "alternative" ftpd\'s, for instance ProFTPd (http://www.proftpd.org).

I work for a large ISP, and I\'ve just finished doing the switch from wu-ftpd to ProFTPd on our main webserver. Jailing users is far simpler, as on most OSes there\'s no setup needed in their home directory, and the management of who gets jailed is simple yet flexable. So far it\'s been all plusses :-)

If you have the time, give it a try.

Regards,
Nic.

I am installing wuftpd for guest-ftp account. But I see nothing with \

I have that problem, too.
Can anyone help us, plae?

Definitely would like to see more admin articles, especially *nix related. Sendmail configuration would really be nice.

I think there's a growing number of small businesses looking to setup their own server . In my case, I'm trying to transition from developer to hosting provider, but have a ways to go.

I have spent the last few days trying to follow your setup to the T and having no sucess at all. I had used your write up under RedHat 6.0 with great success and figured it should work just as well. You can imagine my surprise when I set it up and it did not work.

After spending hours on it I have determined the problem. Those silly guys at RedHat are messing things up again.

They have moved the dependancies for the LS command and MORE command to the /lib dir and not the /usr/lib dir. So if you place your modules (ld-linux.so.6 and others) in the /usr/lib dir it will not return the results of the LS command. LS is looking in the /lib dir which doesn't exisit in your chroot enviroment.

So if you are running RedHat 6.1 create a directory in the root of your chroot enviroment (/home/ftp in the example) and create a dir called /lib. Place your modules (found using the ldd command) in that directory instead of the /usr/lib as suggested by the instructions.

This will fix the problem of not showing the directories during the LS command.

Hope that helps.

I have wutfpd installed and made, with gcc compiler on AIX 4.3.2 and it works I can log in etc, but when I try an ls with a real user it gives me this error.
500 illegal port command
425 cant build data connection: connection refued.
I turned on logging got a message in my errpt about srchenv.c line 342 as where the problem was ??
Any tips on getting this to work.

the tcp parm in the inetd seems to be what caused this. fixed it and ls is working fine -- proftpd had the same problem.

there is a special patched version of 'ls' necessary. i had this problem, too. however, after using the new ls it has gone :-)

well, when i read the article i wondered what i have done wrong, because i did not need to create all the directories and alter the passwd file as described. but yeah, the reason for this is, i use a patched version of 'ls' in the users bin' directory (the only directory i had to create).