Re: [webmin-l] ProFTP and Apache

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 00:51, da...@so... wrote:
> Hi,
> Jamie, great work on this for sure. I've been through hundreds of 
> the list emails and the book (and forum if you will) but haven't found 
> and answer for this, especially for the simple minded like me.
> 
> I'm trying to use ProFTP and Apache with shared IP addressing and 
> get the following out of the box results. 
> 
> **Virtual domain http access works but added email/FTP users don't 
> show up ( actually I haven't even figured what the URL would be).
> 
> **Virtual domain FTP won't log in (bad password) but the added 
> user can FTP
> 
> I understand that ProFTP has no protcol for shared IP and as such 
> Virtualmin doesn't create a virtual ftpserver. So how do I get around 
> this constraint? I know it can be done as I have remotely 
> administered sites that do this through IManager. I have Home 
> mounted on it's own disk. I know some of the user access is due to 
> being Unix user but I'm lost.
> 
> I appologize for such a low level question but it doesn't get 
> answered on the forum.

You are right that the FTP protocol has no way to know what site a user
is connecting to, unless they each have separate IP addresses. However,
this only matters if you are doing virtual anonymous FTP hosting.. If
you just want to allow domain owners and other users to FTP in to manage
files, any FTP server in the default configuration should work fine.

If your users are having trouble logging in, check /var/log/secure or
authlog for error messages .. perhaps they have the wrong shell?

 - Jamie