SlimFTPd: Config File: Difference between revisions

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Your configuration file ('''''slimftpd.conf''''') must contain these six commands, in most cases the default values are adequate.

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Below the global server variables you add user profiles. Each user profile is constructed from the following tags (commands/directives).

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Every access to your FTP server is controlled by user accounts (profiles) these have the following format:

   Mount [public virtual path] [internal local path]

   Allow [public virtual path] [permissions]

   Deny [public virtual path] [permissions]

User name and password are obvious and need no explanation however '''Mount''' '''''is all-important''''' and you need to understand how it works.

* '''Mount''' has the following elements:

* ['''internal local path'''] The real location on your system.

With this knowledge lets re-visit the user profile from the previous page

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# User name is “'''ric'''”

#The user is allowed full access to '''all''' the '''folders''' and '''files''' as displayed in the '''FTP root folder'''.

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After making configuration file changes '''stop''' (uc_kill_process.bat) and '''restart''' (SlimFTPd.exe) your FTP server for the changes to take place.

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I have two friends that are very trustworthy, they would like to upload and download files to their folders hosted on the FTP server. Open the configuration file and add a suitable block for each person as show below

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I have top level access hence can check if they are abusing their privilege of being able to upload to the server.

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Save and login to Dave's account. You will see three files. You can delete, download these files. Try uploading files.

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Repeat the same for Johns's account. Generally have a play with FTP'ing.

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You have set-up three user accounts (Virtual Hosts) in Apache's configuration file and have their corresponding web sites located in the www folder under the following three sub-folder names user1, user2 and user3. They each need to use FTP to upload their site. All you need to do is add three new user profiles to the bottom of the FTP configuration file as follows.

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All three sites map to the appropriate folder in www.

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The most difficult part is the choice of user names and passwords.

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Do not use their real names make sure the names and passwords are different and long and contain a mix of numeric and alpha characters.

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John and Dave would like to have access to slimFTPd’s original unzipped files. For this I will create a virtual folder in the server’s root named “slim” and map folder slimFTPd to it. Notice I am not mapping the folder “original” because I don’t want them to have access to the zip file that it contains. Dave thinks he’s an artist! Well he likes to write over other peoples file hence will restrict him to read access only.

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I have top level access hence can check if anyone is abusing their privileges.

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John is given access with no restrictions.

Test this configuration in your browser or FTP client.

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This type of scenario requires only one user profile:  

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All sub-folders in FTP root inherit the server root's permissions:

# Explicitly grant '''Read''' and '''List''' to '''root'''.

# These permissions are passed on to all sub-folders hence we need to explicitly grant '''Write''' to the '''upload''' folder.

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