I believe that vsftpd is PAM aware so it will use any authentication method that can use PAM so the obvious answer is to use something that can provide authentication and access control lists, which would suggest LDAP to me. I was looking at this recently and it seems to apply to virtual users, but that's about as far as I got.
Simon On 4 Nov 2010 15:21, "Matt Darcy" <ubuntu.li...@projecthugo.co.uk> wrote: Hi Ubuntu uk, This is tricky subject to summerize. I'm pretty confident there isn't a solution to do what I want, but I need a sounding board, so your it. I'm looking at using vsftpd as an open ftp daemon, utilising the virtual user functionality so I don't have to use genuine /etc/passwd or shell based accounts. The issue I've got is that I need multiple users (no problem so far) to then have different read/write access to different directories under the ftp root. The virtual users have no awareness or interaction with the Unix file system permissions, nor do they respect them as they work through the ftpd process owning account. I'm looking at clever ways to do this such as a permissions schema linking into mysql, but it's starting to get a bit over the top. I'm confident this isn't possible but thought I'd throw it out to the list to see if any of you have come up with clever solutions. Thanks, Matt -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
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