On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 16:22:41 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scott, thanks
>What do you want them imported from? The web server? windows machine? flat >file? >If its a flat file, whats it look like? at this time, they're in my mail server user database, which happens to be dBase format(as in Ashton Tate) dbf file I was aiming at exporting it to text, either tab del or csv. so, I can massage them into whatever will suit the target format. the actual files has stuff like: REALNAME,USERNAME,POP3NAME,DOMAIN,EMAILDIR,PASSWORD,PASSTYPE,FORWDFLAG,FORWDADDR,CCFLAG,CCADDR,PROCFLAG,PROCNAME,VACFLAG,USERID,IPMASK,WEBPWD,WEBADMIN,MAXMSGS,MAXBYTES,FTPDOFF,MAILOFF needless to say, the more i can import the happier I'll be... >If I remember correctly, you need to do one of two things: >/etc/init.d/proftpd stop ; chkconfig --delete proftpd (It won't delete >proftpd, just stop it from running on startup) >edit /etc/xinetd.d/ftpd (or similar ) and change line DISABLE = no to yes. no, I need to have FTPd for the dozen or so web hosts, but, I thought I ought to prevent potential ftp access from mail-only users > >> should I also CHOWN all /home/username(s) to be owned by root ? >> >If they have no shell/ftp/anything access besides pop & smtp, is there any >reason to change the permissions? well, some SLUGgers suggested that, and, I thought 'why not' > >How have you disabled them from logging in? yes by way of explanation: I have some web vhost users, these need ftp access, then I have mail users, JUST pop, NO smtp (they use an ISP) at this time, I have created all web vhost users with user name=domain.name, and, hve set the /home/mydomain.com.au, and, Apache vhost stuff. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug