On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 21:42 -0700, Ed Morrison wrote:
I'm setting up a ftp server. I need to be able to have people have a non interactive login through a web browser into a chrooted directory i.e. ftp://somewhere.com. I also need to have a URL that will auto login a user to a chrooted directory. These chrooted directories will be RO for all anonymous access. That said I also need to have a staff account that has upload rights to these directories.
Before I was able to use with Windowz FTP servers: ftp://user:password@somewhere.com. This does not pass with proftpd or vsftpd. Are there conf entries that will allow these? I know there are security risks associated with this but it is an environment I have to deal with anyway.
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I use Proftpd and I am able to log in with a web browser just fine. That said, my directories are chrooted but they are r/w not r/o. Have you verified that these accounts work with a standard ftp client? This is a long shot, without having put too much thought into it .. but have you tried RequireValidShell off? I've always found it easier to debug starting proftpd with "proftpd -d <debug level> -n" the "-n" flag tells the daemon not to go to the background.
HTH, Barry