HOWTO : Create a FTP server with user access (proftpd)

[frodon]

If i look at the /etc/services files port 20 is required too for ftp-data. I think there we just need to find what port forwarding is missing.

[shogan85]

If i look at the /etc/services files port 20 is required too for ftp-data. I think there we just need to find what port forwarding is missing.

frodon, thanks for the reply

I have just swapped out my crap thomson router for a good old netgear dg834 and re-did all my port forwarding. FTP is now working 100% from external too, so as you said it had to be port forward issues on the router itself. Thanks for the guide, I have also now changed my default FTP home location to my site so I can now upload content via FTP...

[Tony25]

I use proftpd from an year now but the only thing still dont understand how to fix is the info of folders and files of the home directories. I have more than 5 accounts on my server, I mean every account have its own home directory, I create them like this (example username: tony20 homefoldername: tony

useradd tony20 -d /home/tony -s /bin/false
passwd tony20

and then I see that all the files and folders on /home/tony get this info User: tony20 Group: tony20

Is that possible to make that this folders and files take the info like this user: ftp-user and group: ftp-group
to make this thing in automatic when you create the accounts.

Thanks

[Packrat73]

Okay, I have looked through this entire thread (even doing the step by step on the first page) I still get a 530 Login incorrect error. What am I missing. The shell login is right. the home dir is fine and chmod 755. I can log into the ftp using my own username and password that is the admin of the box from anywhere, but any user I create for the ftp never gets passed the incorrect error.

Thanks for any help.

[sanemanmad]

Why not just use sftp ? and chroot your user to their $HOME dir, or make default shell /bin/sh ?

[jaywatkins]

Nice tutorial for ProFTPD w/MySQL backend here:

http://howtoforge.com/howtos/ftp

[TimsterC]

I've done the install but I get a "segmentation fault" when I try and run gadmin-proftpd
I've also tried it from a sudo command and the menu item.

Nothing work, any ideas?

[frodon]

Okay, I have looked through this entire thread (even doing the step by step on the first page) I still get a 530 Login incorrect error. What am I missing. The shell login is right. the home dir is fine and chmod 755. I can log into the ftp using my own username and password that is the admin of the box from anywhere, but any user I create for the ftp never gets passed the incorrect error.

Thanks for any help.

Could you post your proftpd.conf file so we can have a look at it ?

Thanks.

[MyR]

I've done the install but I get a "segmentation fault" when I try and run gadmin-proftpd
I've also tried it from a sudo command and the menu item.

Nothing work, any ideas?

It's a known bug. You will have to compile the lastest package for it to work.

peace

[m3bik]

All I get is the error message saying it couldn't find the package.