16 Mar
2007
16 Mar
'07
6:59 a.m.
Hi Patrick,
thank you for your answer!
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 08:27:08PM +0100, Patrick Kaell wrote:
Eric Dondelinger wrote:
Actually, that's the next possibility I had in mind,
switching the ftpd altogether. Since what's to be
found on RHEL4 is proftpd and vsftpd, your favorite
is precisely what I was about to try.
I was a bit reluctant about that because most people
here are experienced with proftpd and we want to
keep more or less with the same packages, but...
Greetings,
Eric Dondelinger
I'm currently butting my head on a
configuration where
I have a RHEL4 (x86_64) server with OpenLDAP and proftpd,
user data are residing in the OpenLDAP, and I wish to
get proftpd to also use that LDAP directory.
I can not directly help you as I stopped using proftpd a long time ago.
But have you already considered using vsftpd? It does not have as many
features as proftpd, but it is much simpler (to configure) and has a
much better security record. The daemon uses a multiple daemon
architecture with the least priviledge principle just like postfix and
apop3d.
Perhaps you have more luck with vsftpd as it is the default FTP server
in most distros nowadays (incl. RHEL & SLES) and the PAM integration
must be officially supported by RHEL (phone support?).
I do not want to start a flame war about proftpd vs vsftpd as vsftpd
lacks some features (but which may not be needed anyways).
http://vsftpd.beasts.org/