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Setting Up ProFTPd + TLS On Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex)

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:23:24 +0100

Setting Up ProFTPd + TLS On Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex)

FTP is a very insecure protocol because all passwords and all data are transferred in clear text. By using TLS, the whole communication can be encrypted, thus making FTP much more secure. This article explains how to set up ProFTPd with TLS on an Ubuntu 8.10 server.

Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Mandriva 2009.0

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:29:55 +0100

Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Mandriva 2009.0

This document describes how to install a PureFTPd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine. In addition to that I will show the use of quota and upload/download bandwidth limits with this setup. Passwords will be stored encrypted as MD5 strings in the database.

Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Fedora 9

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:08:24 +0200

Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Fedora 9

Virtual Hosting With Proftpd And MySQL (Incl. Quota) On Fedora 9

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:10:45 +0200

Virtual Hosting With Proftpd And MySQL (Incl. Quota) On Fedora 9

This document describes how to install a Proftpd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine. In addition to that I will show the use of quota with this setup.

Virtual Hosting With Proftpd And MySQL (Incl. Quota) On Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:09:50 +0200

Virtual Hosting With Proftpd And MySQL (Incl. Quota) On Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Mandriva 2008 Spring

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:39:10 +0200

Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Mandriva 2008 Spring

How to Secure VSFTP with SSL and Two-factor Authentication

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:01:57 +0100

How to Secure VSFTP with SSL and Two-factor Authentication

Recently, there was a report from Finjan that administrator credentials for over 9,000 FTP servers were for sale. Then, F-Secure noted an increase in FTP-based attacks. Many companies and organization still use FTP extensively. If you're running an FTP server and you think you're admin credentials might be one of those 9,000, you should consider implementing two-factor authentication for SSH, which will then also give you two-factor authentication for SCP. This document shows how to configure the popular and secure VSFTP to use SSL for encryption and WiKID for two-factor authentication for your FTP users.

Virtual Hosting Howto With Virtualmin On CentOS 5.1

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:34:44 +0100

Virtual Hosting Howto With Virtualmin On CentOS 5.1

This tutorial shows how to set up a CentOS 5.x server to offer all services needed by virtual web hosters. These include web hosting, smtp server with (SMTP-AUTH and TLS, SPF, DKIM, Domainkeys), DNS, FTP, MySQL, POP3/IMAP, Firewall, Webalizer for stats.

Setting Up ProFTPd + TLS On Debian Etch

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:17:18 +0100

Setting Up ProFTPd + TLS On Debian Etch

Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:30:53 +0100

Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)

Virtual Hosting With Proftpd And MySQL (Incl. Quota) On Fedora 7

Sun, 12 Aug 2007 17:39:37 +0200

Virtual Hosting With Proftpd And MySQL (Incl. Quota) On Fedora 7

Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On CentOS 5.0

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:58:16 +0200

Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On CentOS 5.0

Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Mandriva 2007 Spring

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:25:22 +0200

Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Mandriva 2007 Spring

Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Fedora 7

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:29:19 +0200

Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Fedora 7

Virtual Hosting With vsftpd And MySQL On Debian Etch

Sun, 24 Jun 2007 19:02:03 +0200

Virtual Hosting With vsftpd And MySQL On Debian Etch

Vsftpd is one of the most secure and fastest FTP servers for Linux. Usually vsftpd is configured to work with system users. This document describes how to install a vsftpd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine.