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Secure FTP on UNIX/Irix based systems

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by richnosal

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Im tring to set up a Secure (passworded) FTP site on my SGI Irix 6.5 server.(Irix is a Unix based system)everytime I try to set a password for a new directory or user I get an unexpected failure. password file (s) unchanged. Ive been following SGI tech notes on how to do this but its not working? What am I missing? Do I need to have an anonymous ftp first? Anyone ever run into this problem?

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by eperrin

Try going to ncftp, http://www.ncftp.com. As I recall you are able to do directory based UID / GID / password specifications. It is also more secure than the FTPD's that ship with most stock *NIX systems. WU-tpd is really exploitable for example.
But if you want to use the stock ftpd that shipped with IRIX, create a group called ftpers (or something like that) and assign the home directory of ftp users to whatever directory you want under your ftp tree. Assign them to that ftpers group aswell and chroot the ftp tree so that they cannot get out of ftp "jail"

It also depends on what sort of permission you want on your FTP server, such as are you just setting up a drop box, or just a pub directory that users can get files from, do you want users to be able to overwrite other users files etc.

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