Comments on: PROFTPD virtual user – quick howto

By: malte

malte — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:26:44 +0000

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 ~

Ruud Zeelen — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:46:34 +0000

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.

nessip — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:22:10 +0000

Great:) Thanks for this howto. .-= nessip´s last blog ..Mam talent =-.

Roeland — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:35:08 +0000

You rock! Was so bored with those freaking docs and you had a concise howto. Thank you!

polish john — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:22:58 +0000

great works – thank’s