[geeks] FTP daemons?

[Edward Chase]

I was recently looking to do the same directory restriction thing.

I guess it can't be done with the Sun default FTP server.  Most people said 
to go with ProFTPd.  I found it interesting that www.sunfreeware.com has 
wu-ftpd sitting on their site and not ProFTPd...



At 03:09 AM 11/1/2001 -0600, Bill Bradford wrote:
>Any good recommendations for FTP daemons?  I'm currently using
>ProFTPD, but might be looking at alternatives.  I need to be able
>to chroot() *only certain users* to their home directories, but everyone
>else have "free reign" to change directories, etc.
>
>Currently doing this with a "DefaultRoot ~ <groupname>" directive in
>/usr/local/etc/proftpd.conf, with a UNIX group in /etc/groups listing
>the people I want to limit to their directories..  But it just feels so
>*kludgy*...
>
>Bill

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