WU-FTPd: Setting up and adding users

Installing WU-FTPd

1. Get the RPM from www.rpmfind.net
2. Edit /etc/ftpaccess

class   all   guest  *
guestgroup acme
#Make sure the user account belongs to group ACME !
email root@localhost
loginfails 5
greeting brief
readme  README*    login *
readme  README*    cwd=*
message /welcome.msglogin
message .messagecwd=*
#compress        yes                  all
#tar                  yes                  all
chmod  no  guest
delete  yes  guest
overwrite  yes  guest
rename  yes  guest
log transfers anonymous,real inbound,outbound
shutdown /etc/shutmsg
passwd-check rfc822 warn
3. Add an FTP-only shell to /etc/shells

/etc/ftponly

Adding a user

1. Log on to the FTP server as root
2. In root's home directory, run ./ftpusradd.sh
3. Lock this user to his FTP directory using /home/ftp/jdoe/./
4. Note: As ./passwd is read-only, use :w! to perform a forced save
5. As prompted, create a password for this user
6. Test that the account works with "FTP FTP"

Removing a user

1. Log on to the FTp server as root
2. In root's home directory, run ./ftpusrdel.sh
3. #!/bin/bash

# ftpusradd.sh
if [ "$1" = "" ] 
then 
echo "Syntax is ./ftpusradd user" 
else 
        useradd -g acme -d /home/ftp/$1 -c "$1 FTP account" -s /etc/ftponly $1 
        chmod 0770 /home/ftp/$1 ;Needed to access directory through Samba 
        rm -Rf /home/ftp/$1/* 
        rm -Rf /home/ftp/$1/.??* 
        cp -dpR /home/bin /home/ftp/$1 
        cp -dpR /home/etc /home/ftp/$1 
        cp -dpR /home/.??* /home/ftp/$1 
        chmod 0644 /home/ftp/$1/etc/passwd 
        grep $1 /etc/passwd >> /home/ftp/$1/etc/passwd 
        chmod 0444 /home/ftp/$1/etc/passwd 
        vi /home/ftp/$1/etc/passwd 
        echo "WARNING: Remember to set a password for user $1!" 
fi

#!/bin/bash 
# 
# /root/ftpusrdel.sh 
# 
if [ "$1" = "" ] 
then 
echo "Syntax is ./ftpusrdel jdoe" 
else 
userdel $1 
rm -Rf /home/ftp/$1 
fi

Resources

More infos @ http://www.landfield.com/wu-ftpd/guest-howto.html