topic Re: Seperate FTP manager accounts in Operating System - Linux

Seperate FTP manager accounts

tpfraz — Tue, 19 Aug 2003 21:31:06 GMT

Hi, I have a customer that is transfering over from a server that allows her to create and manage FTP users (create, set passwords, set quotas, etc).
It has something to do with a Raq4 useradmin interface.

I am running RedHat 9 and currently use Proftpd
for the ftp server.
I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to mimic what this customer has on her old server,
onto my server.
Just some kind of administrative ftp user. But only with rights to manage the accounts that she creates.
Any ideas?

Thanks...

-Travis

Re: Seperate FTP manager accounts

Alexander Chuzhoy — Fri, 22 Aug 2003 06:34:16 GMT

you can use the sudo posibilities.

by editing the /etc/sudoers file (read man before)
you can assign any user to run any command with sudo.You can edit this file by issuing visudo command.
For users to run approved commands the syntax is like this:
sudo command

Re: Seperate FTP manager accounts

Vitaly Karasik_1 — Sun, 24 Aug 2003 06:38:31 GMT

unfortunately I don't see how sudo can haelp here - we don't want to provide to this manager ability to run "adduser/deluser" commands for ALL users, but only for FTP users... :-(

If Webmin still doesn't have such module, someone should write such module.

Vitaly

Re: Seperate FTP manager accounts

Alexander Chuzhoy — Sun, 24 Aug 2003 14:04:41 GMT

By the way there is such module in webmin and it supports proftpd. So you can create a user for webmin who has access only to ftp server and from there this user can create/manage users.

Vitaly, perhaps you need to look for updated version of webmin:
www.webmin.com

Re: Seperate FTP manager accounts

John de Villiers — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 10:01:53 GMT

If you switch to vsftpd ( thr RH9 Standard ) then you get the following Feautures, including the ability for a seperate user database ( virtual users )

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Virtual IP configurations.
Virtual users.
Standalone or inetd operation.
Powerful per-user configurability.
Bandwidth throttling.
Per-source-IP configurability.
Per-source-IP limits.
IPv6

Re: Seperate FTP manager accounts

Caesar_3 — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 18:53:12 GMT

Hello!

I accept with John why not to use the
vsftp that came with the RH9 that give
a lot of features.

Caesar