OT: muddleftpd config while running as a normal user

Mumia W. paduille.4062.mumia.w+nospam at earthlink.net
Sat Jun 14 05:47:59 UTC 2008


I want to run muddleftpd as a normal user, but I want to authenticate 
against the system passwords.

I'm able to get muddleftpd to run, but my username and password are 
always rejected.

I start the program this way:

muddleftpd -c xp.muddle.conf

And here is xp.muddle.conf. Please help me get muddleftpd working correctly:

#----------------------------------------------------------
# This is the main server configuration

[section] main

# allow connections from port 21
ftpport 2121

# set maximum users to 200
maxusers 4

# log everything execpt debugging logs
logstrength 63

# set logfile
logfile /home/myuser/tmp/muddleftpd.log

# set default timeout to 300 seconds
timeout 300

# set the file displayed on login
logindump /etc/issue.ftp

# allow anyhost to connect
ipacl A:*

# set admin email address
email user at hostname

# set groups to run through. one group is to catch invalid usernames
# like root and uucp. The next catches anonymous users, the last one
# for normal users
group badusers
# group anonymous
group localusers

# set scratchfile for inetd operation
# scratchfile /var/lock/muddleftpd.scratch
scratchfile /home/myuser/tmp/muddleftpd.scratch

# how long to wait after bad passwords
badauthwait 500

# set hostname to something reasonable
# hostname testserver
hostname Local-host

# set the greeting
greeting Welcome. Enter a username. Use 'anonymous' to access software 
archive.

#----------------------------------------------------------
# This configures badusers. It catches any bad usernames that
# should not be logged into

[section] badusers

	# tell it to accept the usernames root, uucp and news
	nameacl A:root
	nameacl A:uucp
	nameacl A:news
	
	# accept these usernames from any host.
	ipacl A:*

	# tell the server these usernames are disabled
	authmethod disabled

	# set the maxuser count of this group to 0 so it isn't
	# added to the stats
	maxusers 0

#----------------------------------------------------------
# This configures the anonymous user.
# Note: if the following doesn't work, then your computer
#       needs the ftp user to be set.

[section] anonymous

	# tell the group that is can accept any host
	ipacl A:*

	# tell the server to accept anonymous or ftp for this group
	nameacl A:anonymous
	nameacl A:ftp

	# tell the server to use chroot to the anonymous rootdir
	chroot 1

	# tell the server to use the ftp user as the anonymous rootdir
	# and uid/gid
	authparams ftp

	# tell the server to use the anonymous authenticator, and
	# accept any password.
	authmethod anonymous

	# disallow any changes to file permissions or upload umask
	chmoding 0

	# print out this file when the user logs in. It is not relative
	# to anonymous's rootdir
	welcome /home/ftp/welcome.msg

	# display this file when a user changes into a new directory
	cddump .message

	# display this file when too many users are logged on
	busydump /etc/msgs/msg.toomany

	# set the umask files are uploaded with
	umask 077

	# give anonymous user read/list access everywhere and add/list access
	# to the incoming folder. The / on the end of the second directive
	# tells muddleftpd to apply ACL to a directory rather than a file.
	access /:RLC
	# uncomment this line to enable upload area. Can only add files.
	# access /incoming/:ALC
	
	# limit the size of this group so localusers can log in too
	maxusers 100

	# set the niceness of anonymous users to 10
	nice 10

#----------------------------------------------------------
# This configures the normal users.

[section] localusers

	# tell the group that it can accept any host that the last group
	# didn't get
	ipacl A:*

	# tell the server to accept any username for this group
	nameacl A:*

	# tell the server to use chroot to the user's rootdir
	chroot 1

	# set the users rootdir to their homedir, to lock them in there
	rootdir %h
	
	# set the users homedir to /, so he ends up in his own homedir
	homedir /

	# tell the server to use the unix authenticator, useful against
	# normal password files
	authmethod unix

	# give normal users full access to their userspace
	access /:ALL

	# allow server-server transfers with localusers
	fxpallow 1





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