FTP Server Help

[BakDak]

Well I finally have my SuSE 8.1 distro up and running. Now I need to know how to configure certain things in my FTP server.

First off, I beileve i'm running vFTPd for FTP software.

I did find some of the FTP config files in my /etc/ directory, but some things that I need are not in the config files.

I want to be able to set an Upload/Download ratio of 1/2. So that a User has to upload 100mb of demos/trials in order to download 200mb of demos/trials.

Also I have no idea how setup users for the FTP and set permissions. So far I know that you have to right click on the certain folder in the /srv/ftp directory and set the permissions that way. But I'm not sure. Right now I only have it on anonymous access.

Is there any FTP software that can be configured with a GUI?

Thanks, I would appreciate any light on this subject.

[elderdays]

Have you looked over at www.freshmeat.net?

[plasma]

I can't really help with your problem, I use wu-ftpd ^^;

Have you tried looking at the documentation? That's what they make it for...

[BakDak]

I looked for Docs on it but it's no where to be found...

I also download PRO ftpd.. I followed the readme.. and installed it in the root account and now after installing the files disapear. Maybe I'm just stupid and installed it wrong... man I love the fact that the FTP server is faster, but isnt there a GUI ftp setup program for linux out there? I don't want toe skimp on features and speed/security though.

[stiles]

Originally posted by BakDak
First off, I beileve i'm running vFTPd for FTP software.

Could you mean vsftpd (http://vsftpd.beasts.org/)?

Originally posted by BakDak
I did find some of the FTP config files in my /etc/ directory, but some things that I need are not in the config files.

I want to be able to set an Upload/Download ratio of 1/2. So that a User has to upload 100mb of demos/trials in order to download 200mb of demos/trials.

Not all UNIX ftp daemons have warez / anti-leach features, this is true of vsftpd. It's very fast and about as secure of an ftp server as you will find, but feature wise it's just the basics.

Maybe try pureftpd (http://pureftpd.org/)

Originally posted by BakDak
Also I have no idea how setup users for the FTP and set permissions. So far I know that you have to right click on the certain folder in the /srv/ftp directory and set the permissions that way. But I'm not sure. Right now I only have it on anonymous access.

setting up users, depends on the configuration of the ftp server, it could be real users, in which case you will use standard UNIX tools to add users like the adduser script or the useradd command. Also if this is the case you are going to want to specify ftp users shell as /bin/false if you don't they will have shell accounts. The home dir of the user will specify what directory the user will be in when they log into the ftp server. If you use a ftp server that has an option to have virtual users the user data will be held in a database. If this is the case your are going to need to read the ftp daemons docs on how to manulipulate users in this database.

Permissions are changed through the chmod command.

Originally posted by BakDak
Is there any FTP software that can be configured with a GUI?


pureftpd has a couple of gui widgets that spits out a config file

[BakDak]

Stiles: Thank you very much. You have helped me a lot. Appreciate it. I'll start working on my FTP files now. Thanks again.