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Date:      Sat, 3 Feb 2001 21:23:21 +0100
From:      Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net>
To:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ftp
Message-ID:  <20010203212321.P253@speedy.gsinet>
In-Reply-To: <20010203215308.G1412@ramses.local>; from haribeau@gmx.de on Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 09:53:08PM %2B0100
References:  <NEBBIEGPMLMKDBMMICFNOEOPECAA.mit@mitayai.net> <Pine.BSF.4.31.0102021515530.2589-100000@epsilon.lucida.ca> <20010203215308.G1412@ramses.local>

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On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 21:53 +0100, Clemens Hermann wrote:
> 
> At the moment I am using proftpd because I really need the
> virtual-user feature. With this I can avoid the transmission of
> system-passwords via ftp. Any user is a pseudo-uid in the
> proftpd users file. This is - in my opinion - a really good
> thing for ftp because so you can keep you system
> users/passwords secret.  Anyway I would appreciate it a lot if
> I could switch to the normal FreeBSD ftpd. Is there one way to
> get something like the virtual proftpd users to run with ftpd?

$ grep ftp /etc/inetd.conf
$ ldd /usr/libexec/ftpd

It supports PAM.  This should allow you to authenticate users
against any form of textfile, database or network daemon.  It's
just that you had to examine this yourself since I never tried
and thus cannot tell for sure how well it works (don't use ftp at
all around here) ... :)


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