[Bug 929559] New: Feature Request: Restore FTP support for non-system Users
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=929559 Bug ID: 929559 Summary: Feature Request: Restore FTP support for non-system Users Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE Factory Version: 201503* Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: YaST2 Assignee: yast2-maintainers@suse.de Reporter: tonysu@su-networking.com QA Contact: jsrain@suse.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- This was a YAST2 supported feature (properly) a long time ago (don't know when this was removed). A standard and important feature running an Internet File Server using something like FTP is to support remote only FTP access (ie no local logon permissions). I don't know of a single FTP Server which does not support this. For whatever reason, this feature disappeared from the YAST FTP server applet, and now only local system users are supported. Of course, this feature has not disappeared from the FTP Servers themselves. Because this functionality once existed, I wonder if that earlier YAST applet code can be researched instead of re-building from scratch? If there has been fundamental changes in pure-ftpd and vsftpd the code may still need to be modified. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=929559 Tony Su <tonysu@su-networking.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Flags|needinfo?(tonysu@su-network | |ing.com) | --- Comment #2 from Tony Su <tonysu@su-networking.com> --- No, The FTP app with its long history has always maintained its own application level database of Users that can login and access files using the FTP protocol, unrelated to any other database of Users. YAST introduced the idea of permitting access to Users with Local System accounts. While an interesting idea for private access within a very small group or company, this is unworkable for traditional Internet use where you don't want every FTP User to also have local login access to the machine. The way the YAST FTP Server applet works now is very different than how FTP apps are supposed to be configured with minor upside (easy auto use of an available database of Users) but a major security downside (Usual FTP users should not have local logon access). This is of course different than Anonymous access where the User is not individually identifiable.. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
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