LinuxQuestions.org - Help with proftp config

As far as anonymous ftp disallowing it's as simple as adding:
ftp
to /etc/ftpusers

That's 1 down, 2 to go:
allowing only several users ftp access, there is a line in /etc/proftpd.conf that says "maximum users" or something like that, edit to your desired #. The other thing with this is that you setup the accounts for these "users" to login to your system, so you could keep a pretty good tally on them with just that ability.

that's 2, 3 is a little easier:
add this to your /etc/proftpd.conf file (I put mine in the beginning):
DefaultRoot ~

Here's an example of mine (although I do use anonymous ftp, there might be something else beneficial in it):

Code:

# This is a basic ProFTPD configuration file.

# It establishes a single server and a single anonymous login.

# It assumes that you have a user/group "nobody" and "ftp"

# for normal/anonymous operation.



#ServerName                    "ProFTP MasterC Style"

#ServerType                    standalone

ServerType                      inetd

DefaultServer                  on

DefaultRoot                    ~



# Port 21 is the standard FTP port.

Port                            21

# Umask 022 is a good standard umask to prevent new dirs and files

# from being group and world writable.

Umask                          022



# To prevent DoS attacks, set the maximum number of child processes

# to 30.  If you need to allow more than 30 concurrent connections

# at once, simply increase this value.  Note that this ONLY works# in standalone mode, in inetd mode you should use an inetd server

# that allows you to limit maximum number of processes per service

# (such as xinetd)

MaxInstances                    30



# Set the user and group that the server normally runs at.

User                            nobody

Group                          nogroup



# This next option is required for NIS or NIS+ to work properly: 

#PersistentPasswd off



SystemLog                      /var/log/proftpd.log

TransferLog                    /var/log/xferlog



# Normally, we want files to be overwriteable.

<Directory /*>

  AllowOverwrite                on

</Directory>



# A basic anonymous FTP server configuration.

# To enable this, remove the user ftp from /etc/ftpusers.

<Anonymous ~ftp>

  RequireValidShell            off

  User                          ftp

  Group                        ftp

  # We want clients to be able to login with "anonymous" as well as "ftp"

  UserAlias                    anonymous ftp



  # Limit the maximum number of anonymous logins

  MaxClients                    50



  # We want 'welcome.msg' displayed at login, and '.message' displayed

  # in each newly chdired directory.

  DisplayLogin                  welcome.msg

  DisplayFirstChdir            .message

  

  # Limit WRITE everywhere in the anonymous chroot

  <Limit WRITE>

    DenyAll

  </Limit>



  # An upload directory that allows storing files but not retrieving  

  # or creating directories.

#  <Directory incoming/*>

#    <Limit READ>

#      DenyAll

#    </Limit>

#

#    <Limit STOR>

#      AllowAll

#    </Limit>

#  </Directory>

  

</Anonymous>

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