It was boring to look for it in PROFTPD docs – but I could not found quick FAQ so I had no choice. Anyway I decided to write it for others who need quick tip. Here is just 4 simple steps.
1. Download “ftpasswd” perl script and chmod it to 755:
wget http://www.castaglia.org/proftpd/contrib/ftpasswd chmod 755 ftpasswd
2. Create file with your virtual user and ftp group
mkdir /etc/proftpd ftpasswd --passwd --name=ftp_login --home=/home/ftp/ftp_login --shell=/bin/false --uid=1003 ftpasswd --group --name=ftp_group --gid=50 --member=ftp_login
(it is not important what UID and GID you will use as long as it does not have root privileges :), just use any system uid and group and proftpd will write files with it’s privileges)
3. Add this to your proftpd.conf file:
RequireValidShell off AuthUserFile /etc/proftpd/ftpd.passwd AuthGroupFile /etc/proftpd/ftpd.group
4. Restart PROFTPD
killall -HUP proftpd
That’s all! Any questions? Post it below ;)
great works – thank’s
You rock! Was so bored with those freaking docs and you had a concise howto. Thank you!
Great:) Thanks for this howto.
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How do I change the permission to write for a virtual user? I just want one ftp-account to access the /var/www directory.
Thanks in advance.
Just a quick note for anyone who might be having trouble: When i tried this procedure the two files
ftpd.passwd and
ftpd.group
were created in my home directory, so I had to copy them into /etc/proftpd/ before I got it to work:
“mv ~/ftpd.* /etc/proftpd/”
Restarted FTP (which in my case I had to via xinetd (“/etc/init.d/xinetd restart” ) and it worked fine!!!
To make sure that no user is able to go outside of their home directory (so that they are ‘sandboxed’ in), additionally add this to proftpd.conf:
DefaultRoot ~
hi, i downloaded the file and im in the correct directory:
but i get:
“ftpasswd: command not found”
im running debian. any help?
chmod it to 755
Same problem and I did chmod to 755
# mv ftpasswd /usr/sbin/
Im trying to get the ftpasswd to work on CentOS 32-bit, but when i try ftpasswd. I get errors in the script …
ftpasswd: line 28: use: command not found
ftpasswd: line 30: syntax error near unexpected token `(‘
ftpasswd: line 30: `use File::Basename qw(basename);’
Any ideas?
Very good howto. All is working just fine :-)
–name=ftp_login: command not found
how do I change password for user?
# ftpasswd –passwd –name=ftp_login –change-password
Thanks for the great tutorial. To add:
If you’re trying to match the UID+GID of a systems user and their UID/GID are different, you’ll need to specify –gid=[ID] when creating the user.
In the .conf, my AuthOrder now looks like:
AuthOrder mod_auth_unix.c mod_auth_file.c
(Auth against system users first, then virtual users)