Thanks to everyone who has responded with suggestions. I am going to
start testing Proftpd today if all goes well. I have a new question in
regards to setting it up. I went to the Proftpd website and it stated
that it was included with fink, which I downloaded. The ProFTPD package
is listed on the fink website as included but I can not find the
package. I have downloaded the source code and now need some help with
resources to figure out what I am doing being the UNIX neophyte that I
am. I am assuming that I need to compile the package using Xcode since
the package is not included in fink. What are some good resources to
learn about using Xcode and learning to compile? I am not sure if I am
using the correct language. I am going to start with the Xcode
documentation but any other helpful resources that you could recommend
would be appreciated.
Jon Hough
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FASTSIGNS International
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From: macos-x-server-bounces+jon.hough=email@hidden
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On Behalf Of Dan Shoop
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 6:45 PM
To: Chuck Theobald; email@hidden
Subject: Re: Xserve, FTP Server solution.
At 11:16 AM -0700 10/27/04, Chuck Theobald wrote:
>Jon,
>
>We had problems making the stock OS X ftp server actually work, it
>would crash on each connect attempt. Also, since it (xftpd) is based
>on wu-ftpd, known for past security problems, we had security concerns.
>We replaced the stock xftpd with PureFTPD. In retrospect, I probably
>would have gone with proftpd instead for more product maturity and
>richer configuration options. The downside is that the GUI seems
>hardwired for xftpd, so configuration will need to be done with an
>actual text editor (your favorite, or vi ;-) ).
>It can be made to start on demand by editing the file
>/etc/xinetd.d/ftp.
If you plan on supporting a lot of FTP traffic you'll do best to run the
FTPd server stand alone.
>The upside is proftpd can be made to authenticate against Open
>Directory (OpenLDAP with Apple mods) via pam, so you can manage user
>accounts in the Workgroup Manager.
ProFTP can authenticate MANY different ways. In ISP scenarios RADIUS
gets a lot of attention too.
>The setup you describe could easily be replicated with some shell
>scripting to create the directories and set permissions and/or
>restoring from your backups to the OS X server.
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