Topic: more ftp findings

[Scott Kendall]

OK I am beating a dead horse I guess.  I am still trying to figure out login setup information for E-smith's ftp server.   The common problem of changing the home dir.
I have hunted through literally every file in the ./etc/e-smith/etc/  directory, and I have found some interesting things in ./proftpd.conf.
Here are my questions:
1. Is proftp the server that E-smith is using?
2. If I change the paths in   ./05DefaultRoot and ./30UserDirAccess  will this change the folder that users login to through ftp?

The apparent lack of help from this forum has actually driven me to learn on my own....  so thank you I guess.
Now that my feet are wet, any insight you can give me on this topic would be greatly appreciated.

Scott

[Scott Kendall]

I answered my own question.
Searched around for some information on  proftpd  and figured the rest out.
For those of you who are also trying to figure this out  -  the answers to my previous questions are  YES.

Scott

[Scott Smith]

Scott Kendall wrote:

> 1. Is proftp the server that E-smith is using?

yes

> 2. If I change the paths in   ./05DefaultRoot and
> ./30UserDirAccess  will this change the folder that users
> login to through ftp?

You're on the right track -- modify the templates -- however, you should create the duplicate directory structure in templates-custom, copy over the files you want to modify, and modify the copies not the originals. Same-named templates in templates-custom are processed instead of those in templates. (BTW, "new" templates in templates-custom are processed in name sequence.)

> The apparent lack of help from this forum has actually driven
> me to learn on my own....  so thank you I guess.
> Now that my feet are wet, any insight you can give me on this
> topic would be greatly appreciated.

Configuring proftpd is not necessarily the domain of this forum. I'd take the lack of response to mean that you're somewhat on your own -- could be nobody else is doing this kind of thing, has a lot of proftpd experience, is busy, or whatever. You might pose the question, sans any talk of e-smith templates etc, in a general linux forum. "How do I ??? with proftpd?" Once you have the answer on how to modify the proftpd.conf file to get what you want, all that is left is to work out how to do the e-smith templates to get the desired results.

Scott

[Charlie Brady]

Scott Smith wrote:

> You might pose the question, sans any talk of
> e-smith templates etc, in a general linux forum. "How do I
> ??? with proftpd?"

Of course, you'd only do that after having thoroughly perused the documentation for proftpd (http://www.proftpd.net/).

> Once you have the answer on how to modify
> the proftpd.conf file to get what you want, all that is left
> is to work out how to do the e-smith templates to get the
> desired results.

And you'll be able to work that out by reading http://www.e-smith.org/custom/.

You mention "the common problem of changing the home dir". Seems an odd thing to want to do.

Charlie

[Scott Kendall]

Thanks man.
I eventually figured it out on my own.  Everything is working fine now.  (And I did use /templates-custom/.)  Working through this has really taught me the E-smith structure and the whole template idea very quickly.  I am probably gonna write a faq for people who want to use E-smith as a secure public ftp server, since there seems to be a lack of it out there.  The information on the proftpd project is a little confusing for a newbie.  Coupled with the template structure of E-smith.

Again thanks for your input.

Scott

[Buddy Edwards]

Have you written a FAQ yet?  I would be very interested in finding out how you did it.

Thanks
Buddy Edwards

[Dustin Krysak]

I am also interested in this FAQ.