[Gllug] Tip: Scripting passwd

Richard Jones rich at annexia.org
Thu Jul 14 06:39:40 UTC 2005


On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 01:55:17AM +0100, James McGuigan wrote:
> My intended use was with the PureFTP virtual users account (signup and 
> create a website with FTP account), and not the main system password 
> file (which is potentially dangerous). I'm trying to strike a balance 
> between paranoid and workable, the main item being doing admin tasks as 
> a non-privileged user (other than the www-data user) and only allowing 
> specific commands through the sudoers file.

Net::FTPServer lets you virtualise everything - so user accounts, and
even the files themselves, are all stored in the database.

Rich.

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