Vsftp : secured and non-secured users

[Vu Pham]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org 
> [mailto:linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org] On Behalf Of A. Khattri
> Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 11:25 AM
> To: Linux tips and tricks
> Subject: Re: Vsftp : secured and non-secured users
> 
> On Sat, 25 Jun 2005, Vu Pham wrote:
> 
> > I am setting up vsftp 2.0.3 to support secureFtp on my server. It 
> > works but then it requires all users ( except anonymous ) 
> to use sftp.
> > Is it possbile to allow some special users to use normal ftp and 
> > others sftp
> 
> Let me clarify: by sftp, do you mean sftp as provided by sshd 
> or are you talking about regular FTP with some sort of SSL encryption?

It is the FTP with the SSL encryption.

> 
> On our shared web server, I am using proftpd to provide FTP 
> service but by giving users a login shell of rssh
> (http://www.pizzashack.org/rssh/index.shtml) I can also 
> provide them with scp/sftp/rsync without giving them a regular shell.
> 
> (I have combined this with libnss-mysql
> [http://libnss-mysql.sourceforge.net/] so those users dont 
> have real system accounts either.

Thanks for the idea. I am having a problem with VSFTPD. It works but I do
not know how to force some users to use SSL and some not.
I think FTP over SSH will help.

Vu