FTP server with webbased administion

Admin · 02-16-2005, 12:49 PM

Does anyone know of a good FTP server that has a fairly flexible web based administraion? Adding, Edit & Removing users would be enough functionality for the admin side of things....

sde · 02-16-2005, 01:05 PM

check these out.. php/mysql admin for proftpd

http://sourceforge.net/projects/easyadmin/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/proma

Kernel_Killer · 02-19-2005, 05:33 PM

SFTP all the way. All administration is done through the UNIX user. No reason to have clear-text passwords.

teknomage1 · 02-19-2005, 08:10 PM

sftp is not a good idea if you don't want your ftp users to have actual logins to the server. A comprimised virtual ftp account is nowhere near as bad as a comprimised shell acount.

sde · 02-19-2005, 08:12 PM

so long as the users don't have a shell by default, it shouldn't be a problem right? if they find a way to hack in and give themselves a shell, .. well then they wouldn't need to give themselves a shell.

teknomage1 · 02-19-2005, 08:36 PM

That's true for proftp and such but to enable sftp which is part of the secure shell tools, the user has to have a valid login shell or the sftp authentication fails.

sde · 02-19-2005, 08:45 PM

oh cool. i've only used proftp. i thought sftp was just another ftp server.

Kernel_Killer · 03-04-2005, 10:00 PM

Quote:

sftp is not a good idea if you don't want your ftp users to have actual logins to the server. A comprimised virtual ftp account is nowhere near as bad as a comprimised shell acount.

That's why you make a jail.....

Something about using anything with plaintext passwords isn't right.