Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3729 mails)

[Christopher Mahmood <ckm@xxxxxxxx>]

* Rikard Johnels (rjhn@xxxxxxxx) [030531 15:02]:
> Is there a way to block specific users from my vsftp server?

If they aren't anonymous users then sure, see the the
chroot_list_enable section of vsftpd.conf(5).  If they are anonymous
then there's not a whole lot you can do.

> Sometimes i find users uploading stuff that are outside the agreement, and i 
> want to be able to DISCONNECT them as they are trying to.
> I tried blocking them inthe firewall by adding a DROP rule to the specific IP
> But the transfer stayed up.

Perhaps you blocked the control connection and not the data
connection?

> proftpd had nice features to view connected users and drop them at will.
> But as far as i can see vsftp hasnt got those. :(

No, it doesn't.  Lack of feature creep is one of the reasons vsftpd
doesn't have the miserable security history that proftpd has.  It's
a pretty straightforward shell script to write a utility like that,
especially if these are not anonymous users.

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-ckm