On Fri Sep 26, 2003 at 04:21:49AM -0400, Brook Humphrey wrote: > > Personally, if pure-ftpd can't authenticate against LDAP (like proftpd > > can), I'm not overly interested. =) proftpd may have some issues > > periodically, but you can't beat it for configurability. > > Here is only a small portion of the features. I did not do the whole thing as > it is much longer than this list. > > - FTP accounts can be distinct from system accounts, stored in an independant > database. Multiple accounts can share the same system id. A built-in indexing > database allows very fast lookups. It is sucessfully running with over 1.5 > million accounts on the same server. System accounts can be copied to virtual > FTP accounts, so that users can have different passwords for shell access and > FTP access. > > - LDAP authentication is also fully supported. Plaintext, Crypt, MD5, SMD5, > SHA and SSHA crypto hash functions are implemented. Pure-FTPd was > successfully tested with OpenLDAP and iPlanet Directory Server. It uses > standard posixAccounts classes. [... rest of the cool stuff snipped ...]
Wow. I know what I'm doing today. =) Thanks, Brook. Looks like I've been missing out. With that feature-set, I am not at all adverse to making pure-ftpd the default and proftpd as optional, with wu-ftpd gone entirely. Thanks! -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ Online Security Resource Book; http://linsec.ca/ "lynx -source http://linsec.ca/vdanen.asc | gpg --import" {FE6F2AFD : 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD}
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