SUMMARY: FTPd Configuration question

The "answer":

1) Sun's ftpd is not capable of doing this.
2) The general consensus is to use another ftpd - ProFtp and NCftp were the
most frequent products mentioned. I will check them out, and make a
recommendation to TPTB.
3) The general opinion is that other products have their share of bugs as
well, but the perception is that they are fewer than WU-ftpd's.

Thanks for all the answers....

Stan Pietkiewicz
Stan.Pietkiewicz@statcan.ca
Informatics Technology Services Division - Statistics Canada
It may be statistically possible that my opinion is the same
as someone else's - but it is still my opinion!


The question:

I've been asked to replace the WU-ftpd software on a machine with Sun's
ftpd. This is due to security and maintainability concerns with the WU-ftpd.
The difficulty I've run into is the configuration of the ftp-only user
accounts so those user accounts can only see their own home directory
structure, and not the entire filesystem. I've asked Sun support, and they
maintain there's no way to set this up.  Sun has provided the suggestion of
using anonymous ftp with a sublogin but I don't want to set up anonymous ftp
on the machine in question.

Is there some secret to the ftpd configuration that will restrict an
ftp-only login to a single directory similar to WU-ftpd? Is there another
ftp daemon that will do this?  By removing WU-ftpd and installing something
else, am I starting down a slippery slope leading to an ugly mess?

Any help would be appreciated, and a summary will follow.
Thanks.....

Stan Pietkiewicz
Stan.Pietkiewicz@statcan.ca
Informatics Technology Services Division - Statistics Canada
It may be statistically possible that my opinion is the same
as someone else's - but it is still my opinion!
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