Hi there, I'm using Ubuntu 5.10 and want to add users to proftpd, so that they can login and have access to only their own directory. since the web root is /var/www, then i guess each user should have a folder like ~username, and could access that dir from the web root.

problem is that i dont know how to add users to the ftp server. any help?

thanks,
chris

You can just give them actual accounts:
man useradd

Then, in your proftpd file, you would do something like:
DefaultRoot ~

And restrict them to their home directory, which will be unique for each user.

HTH

Cool

okay, well i managed to add the users and can ssh to my server with them, but they cant ftp. and the DefaultRoot thing didn't work. what i'm trying to do is give them access so when they log in via ftp, the root directory that they get put into is their own web root, and i want it to be accessable at http://myserver.com/~username

i'm just not good with the config files

When they FTP in, they'll be in their 'home' directory. In that directory you can create a folder called public_html, in which they can create files that Apache serves up like you noted http://blah.com/~cooldude

There are some troubleshooting steps you can take, probably the best I can think of is to check the log and see why they are failing.

If they can ssh in, I'm assuming they do indeed have a home directory, so that's probably not the problem. It may be your authentication system isn't working properly, which might be noted when the failed attempt is logged.

If you find out it's an authetication issue (from the logs), check out this page:
http://www.castaglia.org/proftpd/doc...ntication.html

Otherwise, feel free to post back with what your logs say so we can pick at em!

Cool

alright. well i made the public_html folder and that works just dandy. (i didn't know apache automatically served that, good thing to know). but the ftp login still doent work.

i opened up my /var/log/auth.log to check stuff out and found that a korean high school's ip address is trying to brute force my server. :\ hm. i'll deal with that later


anyway, this is what i get in the log from proftpd when trying to login

May 30 03:25:59 localhost proftpd: (pam_unix) session opened for user matt by (uid=0)
May 30 03:25:59 localhost proftpd[15913]: localhost.localdomain (192.168.1.100[192.168.1.100]) - USER matt (Login failed): Invalid shell: ''

(my computer's ip is .100 - i'm working on a local network)

not quite sure how to get around the "invalid shell".


chris

okay, i solved that and can now login via ftp.
i added "RequireValidShell off" to the proftpd.conf file

thanks for your help!