Re: [Proftpd-user] Is it possible to have read-only users with chroot + SQL authentication?

[TJ S. <tj...@ca...>]

> > If you want *all users* to be read-only,
> 
> nope sorry, I probably expressed my self incorrectly. I don't want to 
> turn all the user basis read-only, but just *some* of them
> 
> ideally I'm thinking of a field on the users table, a flag "readonly" 
> 0/1 and if it's 1 then the user is allowed only to read the files.
> 
> We want a configuration which allows us to flip a field on the db and 
> turn that user in read-only, without changing anything on the config
> file.

Ah.  For something like that, this module may be of use to you:

  https://github.com/Castaglia/proftpd-mod_dbacl

It is not as full-featured as I would like (yet), but it is a step in
the direction that I think you want.

Cheers,
TJ