Re: [ubuntu-uk] Clever tricks using vsftpd virtual users to have seperate permissisons

2010-11-08 Thread Glen Mehn
On 04/11/10 19:02, Matthew Wild wrote: > On 4 November 2010 15:20, Matt Darcy wrote: >> I'm looking at clever ways to do this such as a permissions schema >> linking into mysql, but it's starting to get a bit over the top. I'm >> confident this isn't possible but thought I'd throw it out to the li

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Clever tricks using vsftpd virtual users to have seperate permissisons

2010-11-04 Thread Matthew Wild
On 4 November 2010 15:20, Matt Darcy wrote: > Hi Ubuntu uk, > > This is tricky subject to summerize. I'm pretty confident there isn't a > solution to do what I want, but I need a sounding board, so your it. > > I'm looking at using vsftpd as an open ftp daemon, utilising the virtual > user functio

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Clever tricks using vsftpd virtual users to have seperate permissisons

2010-11-04 Thread Simon Greenwood
I believe that vsftpd is PAM aware so it will use any authentication method that can use PAM so the obvious answer is to use something that can provide authentication and access control lists, which would suggest LDAP to me. I was looking at this recently and it seems to apply to virtual users, but

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Clever tricks using vsftpd virtual users to have seperate permissisons

2010-11-04 Thread Glen Mehn
I've not set up an ftpd in some years, but you might look at pure-ftpd I believe that it allows you to map users to /etc/passwd entries (even if those entries have no login permissions) as well as specifying a different ftproot for different users. It was also at the time one of the more secure

[ubuntu-uk] Clever tricks using vsftpd virtual users to have seperate permissisons

2010-11-04 Thread Matt Darcy
Hi Ubuntu uk, This is tricky subject to summerize. I'm pretty confident there isn't a solution to do what I want, but I need a sounding board, so your it. I'm looking at using vsftpd as an open ftp daemon, utilising the virtual user functionality so I don't have to use genuine /etc/passwd or shel