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September 7, 2004
Does anyone here have a preferred ftp daemon that they run? I’d use the one built into FreeBSD, but I’d prefer to have something a bit more stand-alone which will do authentication on it’s own with chroot support, as I want logins with no system accounts to access only very specific directories.
I’d run Apache 2.x and use it’s ftp module, but I’m still concerned about PHP compatibility with it.
ProFTPd is an excellent and highly configurable ftp daemon. Another is glftpd, although not only is it not opensource (last time I checked), it is much more suited for people who are running things for clandestine purposes.
Thanks for the thumbs up on ProFTPd. I actually came across it after I wrote that message, but I left the decision up to tomorrow… With it’s support for virtual hosts, I think I’ll give it a go tomorrow.
By the way, have you used Plesk at all? I’m debating putting together a small box to do some low key hosting on, and it looks like a nice (and FreeBSD compatible) alternative to Ensim.
Actually, my company uses Plesk as its hosting turnkey solution. It *IS* good, but there are some key features that I would rather have that ensim doe have. It lacks chrooting of the users which actually is a major minus for me, it also lacks multiple shell accounts for each root user like what ensim has. Although with enough work both of those would be possible with plesk, just more work then i’m willin to expend. Other then that, my experience with plesk has been quite nice and my users enjoy it.
Oh, nifty. Thanks for the info… I don’t have a test box I can drop the demo on yet… Pricing out servers it looks like I can get something rather for around $1600. I just need to poke around the SATA RAID driver stuff. FreeBSD doesn’t support Maxwell chipsets yet, so, yeah.
Also, who knows if it’ll even be worth my time to do it. Losing money or breaking even isn’t worth it.
logins with no system account
vsftpd (very secure ftpd), fast and configurable, worth a look.
Re: logins with no system account
vsftpd is what I’ve been using for years.