I was trying to setup proftpd on my linux box. However i can't get the user accounts to work. I could not find a detailed guide on how to do it. How do i create user accounts? and where can i find information on how to secure proftpd? Thank you.

Hello,

First off you need to give more information, like what distribution, are you using pam, etc.

Here are some givens. Proftpd will use pam, shadow, and a few different other auth methods.

I use proftpd on Redhat 7.1 so I use pam.

You add and delete users just like you normally would with useradd and userdel from the command line.

man useradd
man userdel for more information on those.

Hope this helps!

I'm running RedHat 7.1

I read the man page for useradd and userdel. Thank you. I got a question about the config file. Can i just rename basic.conf that comes with proftpd-1.2.4 to proftpd and copy it into the appropriate directory and change the group and username? Would that work for me? I don't want to let any anonymous users in but i wanna create users and assign them passwords. Thank you.

Well first, to get rid of the anonymous stuff, just comment out or remove the <anonymous> stuff </anonymous> lines from your config and restart the server.

Remember, proftpd simply uses system users for its user database, nothing special.

Well, depending on how you compiled it, the config file goes in a particular place.

But you can specify it with -c on the command line:
proftpd -c /etc/proftpd.conf

http://www.proftpd.org/ has some great documentation on Config parameters. I would go read up on those if you have particular questions. They also have a helpful mailing list.

Good luck.