[GLLUG] FTP Server

[impact]

Yeah, just decided to try pure-ftpd, heard good things about
speed/reliability.
Question for you though.  I found the flag to toggle chrooting users
into their home directories (obviously a good idea), but is there a way
to exempt users from that? (my main user)

Marshal Newrock wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, impact wrote:
>
>> Well, I just finished reformatting my home server.  I was wondering if
>> anyone here could give any useful information about FTP servers.  I used
>> ProFTPd before, but for some reason had some problems with speed, and a
>> few other problems as well (not neccessarily ProFTPd's fault), like
>> Windows client issues.
>>
>> I've read a bit about vsftp, and wu-ftp.  Can anyone give me any
>> directions for a good, easy to configure FTP server?
>
>
> I use pure-ftpd, which is very easy to configure.  There's no config
> file, just the command line options.  Some systems, such as gentoo,
> will have a file in conf.d, but that's just a place to store said
> command-line options.  The disadvantage, of course, is that in order
> to change any of these options, you must restart the ftp server.
>
> It's also very versatile with user authentication.  I found it much
> easier to set up a non-system user in a flat file with pure-ftpd than
> proftpd.
>