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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: orange on April 30, 2006, 04:58:29 PM

Title: ProFTPD
Post by: orange on April 30, 2006, 04:58:29 PM

How do you create group in /etc/groups ???
 :-?  :-?  :-?

I cannot find any help for Amiga port, everything is for Linux..

Title: Re: ProFTPD
Post by: Failure on April 30, 2006, 05:31:22 PM

Are you talking about the AmiTCP:db/group file?  If so, to add a group you just mimic what is already in the file.  Like:
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newgroup|*|1000|someuser[/color]Where someuser is a member of newgroup.

Title: Re: ProFTPD
Post by: orange on April 30, 2006, 06:19:08 PM

thanks, but thats not it. proftpd is a ftp server ported from linux to Amiga, it has its own user/group (not quite sure about that, though)
I already tried copying amitcp:db/group to usr:
but it didnt work.

Inside proftpd.lha there seems to be test configuration and test group (filename=PFTEST.group):

proftpd:*:666:



but its hard to mimic that, any idea?

EDIT:it seems that on linux there is a special program called 'ftpasswd' that creates passwords and groupfile.
"of course" it has not been ported, bah
has anyone managed to run this piece of $hit on Amiga???

Title: Re: ProFTPD
Post by: xeron on April 30, 2006, 08:23:29 PM

Have you tried rc-ftpd? its written specifically for the amiga and has a nice easy mui gui.

Title: Re: ProFTPD
Post by: buzz on April 30, 2006, 08:27:44 PM

ftpasswd is perl so if you have perl installed on the amiga you can use it. However, I don't think the amiga port of proftpd will work in standalone daemon mode (Due to relying on fork() ), but only from inetd, which means for each connection you are going to loose a huge chunk of ram.

You are much better off to run rc-ftpd as suggested.

Title: Re: ProFTPD
Post by: orange on May 05, 2006, 04:38:13 PM

unfortunately RC-FTPd wont work even from localhost, gives error:
"file unavailable"
 :-(  :-(  :-(

edit: all of sudden it works! woohoo!
 :roflmao: