Re: [Proftpd-user] Allow users to set password on directories?

[Ed W. <ew...@ew...>]

On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 10:06:38AM -0700, TJ Saunders wrote:
> 
> > I have ftp "superusers", who I would like to be able to create
> > directories within their own directories and password protect those
> > directories so that when their customers go to ftp to a superusers
> > directory, they can get at certain directories based on a password.
> 
> FTP does not allow for password-protected directories.  A password is
> prompted from the client only once, when the client authenticates to the
> server and starts a session.

You can, however, put only encrypted documents in that directory, if you
can get your users to enforce that.  Use something like gpg and make
sure that only the trusted users have the private key.

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