Proftpd - Practise Private Directories For Each User Account

This post explains how to modify the proFTPd Administrator tool to brand the practise users tool truly practise private directories for each delineate of piece of employment concern human relationship that is created.

Requirements

This characteristic is designed to travel from inside the admin spider web interface together with hence the next has to endure installed:

• CentOS 5.x amongst LAMP installed.
• proFTPd installed together with configured for virtual users.
• proFTPd Administrator installed.

Configuration

In the config file you lot tin railroad train a script to run every fourth dimension a user is created (a sample script is included inwards the misc/user_create subfolder).

Note
When nosotros refer to this script inwards the configuration files, nosotros accept to include the absolute path. This document assumes that the proFTPd Administrator tool has been installed inwards /usr/share/proftpd_admin/.

Running the script to modify permissions together with creating dwelling family directories requires root-access from the script. We volition role the sudo tool to hit this.

1. Check if sudo is installed:
   

   yum install sudo

2. The file /etc/sudoers, has the rules that users accept to follow when using sudo command. Edit the sudoers file:
   

   nano /etc/sudoers

   and add together the next few lines:
   

   # Cmnd alias specification
    Cmnd_Alias CREATE_USER = /usr/share/proftpd_admin/misc/user_script/create_user.sh
    
    # User privilege specification
    nobody ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: CREATE_USER

3. Ensure proFTPd-admin includes the create_user script. Edit include_config.php:
   

   nano /usr/share/proftpd_admin/include_config.php

   add the next delineate to the terminate of the $ config ... statements at the transcend of the file:
   

   $config_createuser_command = "sudo /usr/share/proftpd_admin/misc/user_script/create_user.sh";

4. Edit the create_user.sh to practise dwelling family directory together with setup right user together with grouping ownerships. (They are included inwards the create_user_example.sh script):
   

   cd /usr/share/proftpd_admin/misc/user_script/
    mv create_user.sh create_user_old.sh
    cp create_user_example.sh create_user.sh

5. Now cheque the create_user.sh file:
   

   nano create_user.sh

   and ensure the file contains the following:
   

   #!/bin/bash
    USER=$1
    USER_ID=$2
    GROUP_ID=$3
    
    mkdir -p /ftp/$USER
    chown $USER_ID.$GROUP_ID /ftp/$USER

6. Ensure the safety hasn't been compromised past times running the next commands:
   

   chown -R root.root /usr/share/proftpd_admin/misc/user_script
    chmod 700 -R /usr/share/proftpd_admin/misc/user_script

References

• proFTPd Server
• proFTPd Administrator
• proFTPd installed together with configured for virtual users