FTP Users problem

[Di0g0]

If you block SSH with iptables (firewall) then SFTP will be blocked, too. If you want only SFTP but not SSH , see the trick above.

My new idea was installing a control panel on a web host to start & stop the servers. The panel will use a ubuntu account to SSH to the VPS.

After that I will create 2 folders inside that account homefolder one for each server, and arrange a way to give them FTP access to change the files.

[Lars Noodén]

My new idea was installing a control panel on a web host to start & stop the servers. The panel will use a ubuntu account to SSH to the VPS.

After that I will create 2 folders inside that account homefolder one for each server, and arrange a way to give them FTP access to change the files.

You could have a shell script with a short menu of actions to start the servers and such and tie the ssh key (the one on the server in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys) to that script. It's sounding more like keys might be the way to go. One key to start/stop/reload the server another key for SFTP. Making a web UI would add a lot of complexity.

[Di0g0]

You could have a shell script with a short menu of actions to start the servers and such and tie the ssh key (the one on the server in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys) to that script. It's sounding more like keys might be the way to go. One key to start/stop/reload the server another key for SFTP. Making a web UI would add a lot of complexity.

But in the SAMP case, the only way to stop that kind of servers is killing their PID. Is there anyway to create a key to stop samp servers killing a random PID?

Also

About my new ideia, I have a web panel that connects via SSH to the machine to start & stop servers, the problem is that the panel doesn't have any web ftp option so I need a way to upload files to FTP to a specific folder.

[Lars Noodén]

In the SAMP case, is the PID saved in a file? Often servers will store their PID in a special log file which can then be used to kill the file.

kill -HUP $(cat /var/run/samp.pid)

Or else maybe pkill can be used to kill it by name. If you have the exact name of the program, it should work like this:

pkill -HUP -x sampd

Where instead of 'sampd' you would write the name of the SAMP server program.