How to configure edtFTP

Question

Greetings
Sorry if this is not the right place where to put my question, but I'm trying the 0.9.2 of edtFTP and get the following trouble: how to configure it? I mean, how to add users, configure them etc...
The edtFTP Manager is not able to do that while I think it should be the right interface. I see, under the blabla/etc/ there is the configuration and the passwd/group file and, following the ProFTP filosophy they should be the places where I should put my configuration. I've tried to change the passwd but nothing is changed in the Manager's user list neither in the authentication process. Could you please help me or give me any other hints? TIA

Answer 1

Hi,

This version of edtFTPD uses the Windows user accounts only. In other words, you can enable/disable FTP for the existing Windows users only. The available Windows users should be listed under the Users node in the tree on the left. To enable FTP for a user, select it in the tree and then change the value of Status|Enabled to True. The directory for the user will be a subdirectory of blabla/home.

We are planning a more powerful version of edtFTPD, but, for now, this is the only way to add FTP users. Unless...

edtFTPD is based on ProFTPD, so you should be able to add users if you can figure out how to set up the configuration files (probably default.conf and/or passwd). You can find information on ProFTPD configuration in http://www.proftpd.org/docs.

- Hans (EDT Suppport)

Answer 2

Hi Hans
Thank you for your answer but...
1 - in the left pane of edtManager I can see just anonymous, administrator, guest and aspnet, as users. Who they are and where they came from I really can't figure out ;-) I'm joking, in the sense that I know that these are the local (to my machine) users but my pc is in a domain and it could be useful if also the domain users would be listed there
2 - As I wrote, I tryied to configure users in the blabla/etc/passwd file (also using the blabla/bin/mkpasswd -d > blabla/etc/passwd) but...well, I'm here asking my question ;-)
Anyway, added a new user (ftptest with ftptest as password), enabled in the Manager interface but the server still answer "530 Login incorrect"...
Any hint?

Answer 3

Following, there's an abstract from edtftld.log

255.255.255.255 (ep350-05.marscenter.it[193.206.23.197]) - FTP session opened.
255.255.255.255 (ep350-05.marscenter.it[193.206.23.197]) - USER ftptest: Login successful.
255.255.255.255 (ep350-05.marscenter.it[193.206.23.197]) - ftptest chdir("/"): No such file or directory
255.255.255.255 (ep350-05.marscenter.it[193.206.23.197]) - FTP session
closed.

The 3rd row should be the answer to my question...but I don't understand why this happen.
Following, there's an abstract from the passwd

SYSTEM:*:18:544:,S-1-5-18::
ftptest:unused_by_nt/2000/xp:1002:513:ftptest,U-EP350-05\ftptest,S-1-5-21-842925246-1202660629-839522115-1002:/edtFTPD/home/ftptest:

Hope this helps...

Answer 4

Unfortunately, edtFTPD Manager doesn't currently support domain accounts, but it should and we'll try to add it in the next beta release. Don't give up though as there's still a way for you to make it work.

Try the following:

1. Make sure edtFTPD Manager is shut down.
2. Go to blabla/etc
3. Make a backup copy of the passwd file.
4. Run the command

   ..\bin\mkpasswd -d >> passwd

5. Edit the passwd file and remove the users you don't want to allow FTP for (which could be quite a lot :cry:). Leave SYSTEM there.
6. Restart the service using the Windows Administration tool (not edtFTPD Manager).

Be warned that edtFTPD Manager will wipe out your changes next time you start it.

- Hans (EDT Support)

Answer 5

With respect to the chdir("/") problem, please refer to the 'chdir("/") ???' forum topic.

- Hans (EDT Support)

Answer 6

Hi Hans
I've seen the solution proposed: changing manually the Register, but also a "patch" to the problem.
Can you e-mail it to me or tell me how and where I can find it?
TIA

Answer 7

Hi Hans
I've seen the solution proposed: changing manually the Register, but also a "patch" to the problem.
Can you e-mail it to me or tell me how and where I can find it?
TIA

Unfortunately the solution that we tested in that instance, although very elegant, didn't actually fix the problem. We have decided on a (less elegant) fix for the problem that we know will work, and it will be included the next release (0.9.3) which will come out soon.

For now, I'm afraid you're going to have to edit the registry.

-Hans (EDT Support)

Answer 8

Aughhhh!!!!
Ok, can you provide me precise directions on how to accomplish this task?
I've tried but nothing changed :-(. Well, I'm not very used with Window$ O.S. I'm a Unix-Man ;-) (and, before, I was a DEC-VMS-man)...
TIA

Answer 9

A pre-release of edtFTPD 0.9.3b is currently (4 October 04) available from http://www.enterprisedt.com/tmp/edtFTPDsetup.exe.

It contains a new attempt to fix this stubborn problem. We would be very grateful if anyone who is having this problem downloads this pre-release and lets us know how it goes.

Thanks,
- Hans (EDT Support)

Answer 10

I followed the directions you listed below, but there are still no users listed. FYI the passwd file does have the users.
Thoughts?
Thanks!

-TCS

Unfortunately, edtFTPD Manager doesn't currently support domain accounts, but it should and we'll try to add it in the next beta release. Don't give up though as there's still a way for you to make it work.

Try the following:

1. Make sure edtFTPD Manager is shut down.
2. Go to blabla/etc
3. Make a backup copy of the passwd file.
4. Run the command

   ..\bin\mkpasswd -d >> passwd

5. Edit the passwd file and remove the users you don't want to allow FTP for (which could be quite a lot :cry:). Leave SYSTEM there.
6. Restart the service using the Windows Administration tool (not edtFTPD Manager).

Be warned that edtFTPD Manager will wipe out your changes next time you start it.

- Hans (EDT Support)