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Virtual Hosting With vsftpd And MySQL On Debian Lenny

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:34:10 +0100

Virtual Hosting With vsftpd And MySQL On Debian Lenny

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.

Virtual Mail And FTP Hosting With iRedMail And Pure-FTPd On FreeBSD

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:16:44 +0100

Virtual Mail And FTP Hosting With iRedMail And Pure-FTPd On FreeBSD

iRedMail is a shell script that lets you quickly deploy a full-featured mail solution in less than 2 minutes. Since version 0.6, it supports FreeBSD 7.2 and 8.0 (both i386 and x86_64). iRedMail supports both OpenLDAP and MySQL as backends for storing virtual domains and users. The OpenLDAP backend of iRedMail allows you to integrate all kinds of applications. This guide shows you how to integrate pure-ftpd into the iRedMail ldap backend on FreeBSD 7.2, passwords will be stored in ldap and you can change the password through webmail.

Virtual Hosting With Proftpd And MySQL (Incl. Quota) On Ubuntu 9.10

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:31:12 +0100

Virtual Hosting With Proftpd And MySQL (Incl. Quota) On Ubuntu 9.10

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 PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:02:14 +0100

Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)

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.

Setting Up ProFTPd + TLS On Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:42:49 +0100

Setting Up ProFTPd + TLS On Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)

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 9.10 server.

Virtual Hosting With Proftpd And MySQL (Incl. Quota) On Fedora 11

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:55:41 +0100

Virtual Hosting With Proftpd And MySQL (Incl. Quota) On Fedora 11

Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Mandriva 2009.1

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:03:16 +0100

Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Mandriva 2009.1

Virtual Hosting With Proftpd And MySQL (Incl. Quota) On Mandriva 2009.1

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:18:04 +0100

Virtual Hosting With Proftpd And MySQL (Incl. Quota) On Mandriva 2009.1

Virtual Mail And FTP Hosting With iRedMail And Pure-FTPd On Ubuntu 9.04

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:36:12 +0100

Virtual Mail And FTP Hosting With iRedMail And Pure-FTPd On Ubuntu 9.04

iRedMail is a shell script that lets you quickly deploy a full-featured mail solution in less than 2 minutes. Since version 0.5, it supports CentOS 5.x, Debian 5.x, Ubuntu 8.04 and Ubuntu 9.04 (both i386 and x86_64). iRedMail supports both OpenLDAP and MySQL as backends for storing virtual domains and users. The OpenLDAP backend of iRedMail allows you to integrate all kinds of applications. This guide shows you how to integrate pure-ftpd into the iRedMail ldap backend on Ubuntu 9.04, passwords will be stored in ldap and you can change the password through webmail.

Virtual Mail And FTP Hosting With iRedMail And Pure-FTPd On Debian Lenny

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:33:07 +0100

Virtual Mail And FTP Hosting With iRedMail And Pure-FTPd On Debian Lenny

iRedMail is a shell script that lets you quickly deploy a full-featured mail solution in less than 2 minutes. Since version 0.5, it supports CentOS 5.x, Debian 5.x, Ubuntu 8.04 and Ubuntu 9.04 (both i386 and x86_64). iRedMail supports both OpenLDAP and MySQL as backends for storing virtual domains and users. The OpenLDAP backend of iRedMail allows you to integrate all kinds of applications. This guide shows you how to integrate pure-ftpd into the iRedMail ldap backend on Debian Lenny, passwords will be stored in ldap and you can change the password through webmail.

Setting Up ProFTPd + TLS On Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:47:32 +0100

Setting Up ProFTPd + TLS On Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)

Virtual Hosting With Proftpd And MySQL (Incl. Quota) On Ubuntu 9.04

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:19:03 +0100

Virtual Hosting With Proftpd And MySQL (Incl. Quota) On Ubuntu 9.04

Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:07:02 +0200

Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)

Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On CentOS 5.3

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:35:06 +0200

Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On CentOS 5.3

Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Fedora 11

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:08:59 +0200

Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Fedora 11