Seperate FTP manager accounts

[tpfraz]

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

[Alexander Chuzhoy]

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

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

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

[Alexander Chuzhoy]

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

[John de Villiers]

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

[Caesar_3]

Hello!

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

Caesar