* Store user account's files in seperate folders
You can use the homedirectory for that which would be /home/username. If you want it to be in a different location you can edit the /etc/passwd file to set the home dir of each user to something like /somedir/ftp/username.
* Let users access their FTP files when they logged in the LINUX console or X Window
If you are using their home directory then they already have access to all those files.
* Not let people from outside LAN to access proFTPd (I will change it to internet when I setup FTP correctly)
There are many ways you can do that.
- You can use your firewall to only allow internal connections
- You can start proftpd from xinetd and use /etc/hosts.allow to only allow hosts from inside to connect
- You can set rules in the proftpd.conf file to only allow internal hosts to connect
* Only let LAN users access to proFTPd (this will change too).
Same as preventing access for external users.
* Instead of Root having read and write access to the FTP folder. Let users have both read and write access so they can move files within their directory.
Each user should be the owner of their own home directory. If each home directory is a branch of some ftp directory. Then root should still own the ftp directory and it should have permissions like rwxr-xr-x
* Restrict users to only their FTP folder when using FTP Clients
Add the following line to /etc/proftpd.conf:
DefaultRoot ~
~ is an alias for the users home directory
* Limit bandwidth to around 30 Kilobytes per second both uploads and downloads. My cable connection is limit to around 2500 kilobytes.
Add something like this to the /etc/proftpd.conf file:
RateReadBPS 30720
RateReadFreeBytes 5120
RateReadHardBPS on
Read more about it in the proftpd documentation.
* I already know how to link a folder using the mount command but I don't know how to add a link folder in fstab. I don't mind typing the mount command by hand everytime but it can get annoying over time.
Read man fstab to find out the exact configuration of the file.
Basically each entry is something like:
<file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
/dev/hda5 /home ext2 defaults 0 1
* Also I'm having trouble writing to the FTP folder when I'm under a username other than root or super root. I don't know how to chmod the folder every time.
Best would be to also give write permissions to a special group and make the user part of that group. You'll have to run:
chgrp specialgroup /ftpfolder
chmod g+w /ftpfolder
* What is the usual path to my proFTPd server when using FTP clients? Is it ftp.localhost.localdomain or something else?
It's the domain name you've given the server. If it doesn't have a fully qualified domain name you can also use the hostname or the ip address.
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