Hi,

I've just installed/configured PureFTPd on my Debian server (the pure-ftpd-mysql package) with plenty of fun and games along the way, but I'm having some trouble specifying the passive mode ports I want it to use.

I can't find the option in any of the config files, so I'm now thinking I'll need to edit the start-stop-daemon line in the init script, which is:

start-stop-daemon --start $SSDAEMONLOGOPTS --pidfile /var/run/pure-ftpd/pure-ftpd.pid --exec $WRAPPER -- $SUFFIX

Based on what I've read in the man page for start-stop-daemon, I assumed that I could just pop -p40000:40050 on the end of that and it would be passed to the program when it was started.

Unfortunately this doesn't seem to be the case and I'm somewhat at a loss.

Perhaps I'm simply missing a config file somewhere, but I've been searching around for a fair while and I can't seem to shed any light on the issue. Hopefully I'll have more luck here !

Thanks in advance,
James

I'm on to this setup this very moment. I'm still having some problems with the passive port range on LAN and WAN. I already have a server working with passive mode with pure-ftpd, but it's hard to figure out what the problem is when I've already copied all the options from this server.

You know that the easiest way to configure your pure-ftpd is to use the conf/ folder and save files here?


try these options:

-p 41000:41100 -- > specifies the portrange. Save the file as /etc/pure-ftpd/conf/PassivePortRange

It is possible you'll need to specify you LAN IP for your router if u use one. I've set mine to:
-P 192.168.1.2
u simply save the value "192.168.1.2" in the file /etc/pure-ftpd/conf/ForcePassiveIP

Remember the "-p" and "-P" is NOT to be included in the configfiles (if u use them, u need them in your startupscript ofcourse)

Add-on: I do remember when troubling with these settings, that resetting my Ubuntu server worked out. Not sure why, but I remember it did.
/etc/init.d/pure-ftpd restart didn't update my settings for some reason. Worth a try

This was a great help mogie. I have just been installing ISPConfig and had to be certain about the ftp-data port range. I pretty much followed your idea on the Ubuntu 9.04 server box:

print "60010 60030" > /etc/pure-ftpd/conf/PassivePortRange
/etc/init.d/pure-ftpd-mysql restart

and during the restart the port range was confirmed :-)

I also installed ISPConfig 3 and was trying to find how to set the passive port range. This topic helped me configure it. I installed it on ubuntu 9.04. I already had created the file PassivePortRange in /etc/pure-ftpd/conf/ so all i did was:

echo "40110 40210" > /etc/pure-ftpd/conf/PassivePortRange

/etc/init.d/pure-ftpd-mysql restart