ftp server software

[Marco van Kammen]

Hi,

I'm looking for ftp server software running either on hp/sun/linux with the following features:

-web or client based delegated user administration

-LDAP/AD authentication

-detailed live status overview, with per user activity download/upload speed etc.

-fast and tcp/ip friendly (no inetd processes)

-quota/ratio's

-group based user authentication

-anonymous & user based authentication at the same time.

-virtual domaining support (not really needed but nice if its possible)


We are currently running Serv-U (www.serv-u.com) on Windows 2000 machine, serving between 50-100 concurrent users and terra's of data. The reason why we want to switch to unix is that testing proved that unix ftp servers are just way faster then windows ones.

The only downside is that there are tons of NT ftp servers out there with lots of nice features, and i'm heaving a hard time to find a unix variant which can do the same.

I already looked at SurgeFTP,glftpd,pureftp,wu-ftpd,ncftpd,vsftpd,proftpd.

They all have their own nice pro's and con's but the delegated admin feature which is very nice in Serv-U is missing in most of the unix variants. As we have tons of internal and external ftp users its a must that we can simply give say a department head a admin user and he can easily create the users he needs via either web gui or a local windows client.

Hope anyone out there knows a program which can do at least that on unix.

Thanks!

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

There are only to ftp servers that HP supports at some level for HP-UX.

wuftpd, which is standard and ships with the OS.

proftpd, which is part of the Internet Express package offered for 11i v1 and 11i v2.

Neither of them offers this nice GUI administration package.

To run this on HP-UX requires systems administration.

There is a nice tool that ships with the OS called sam. You can set up your operations department or admnistrator with restricted sam capabilities that will enable the user to add users and handle simple tasks.

You could try and install the RedHat Directory server for ldap (for HP-UX) and do gui user administration that way as well. This would permit you to hanlde your user admin tasks. I have found that the Linux version of this product to be quite simply not ready for prime time.

Any other ftpd server for HP-UX may work but probably won't be supported if it causes problems by your HP software contract.

The problem here is not the back end ftpd server, its the administration tasks after you have that working, for which restricted sam might do the job.

SEP

[Ivan Krastev]

Proftpd can be configured using webmin web based administration. For other modules (for another ftpd servers) see http://www.webmin.com/


regards,
ivan

[Ivan Krastev]

There are also many web interfaces for configuring proftpd - http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/proftpweb.htm


regards,
ivan