FTP, FTP Lion Server

I am working very hard to try and find this answer myself. As near as I can tell there are some settings in the FTPD.CONF file in the /private/etc directory that make this possible. However, I have not found the magic setting that seems to work.

I at lease found out that the "modify [INSERT USER NAME] all" command seem to give back the Read, Renam, Make DIR, DEL, etc... priviliges.

I did notice that the FTP Server will drop the user in their personal directory if you creat the user as a general user. ( The selection where it creates a directory for them... )

I'll add as soon as I learn more...

Why bother with Lion's FTP server which Apple removed the GUI controls. Plain old FTP is not secure. Everything gets transmitted in the clear including passwords.

Why not try Pure-ftpd Manager 1.8 (GUI)? It installs pure-ftpd 1.0.21. However pure-ftpd 1.0.21 has some issues with securing the entire session, but at least encrypts passwords.

This can be corrected after you install Pure-ftpd Manager 1.8(GUI) for Mac by installing pure-ftpd 1.0.32.

Note in order to install pure-ftpd 1.0.32, you'll need to install Xcode for Lion.

Run Terminal

In the Terminal paste this:

find /usr/local -type f -name 'pure-*' | tar -czf pure-ftpd_backup.tgz -T -

curl -O 'http://download.pureftpd.org/pub/pure-ftpd/releases/pure-ftpd-1.0.32.tar.gz'

tar xzf pure-ftpd-1.0.32.tar.gz

cd pure-ftpd-1.0.32

./configure --with-everything --with-tls --with-certfile=/etc/pure-ftpd/ssl/pure-ftpd.pem --sysconfdir=/etc/pure-ftpd/ --with-sysquotas --mandir /usr/local/man --with-pam --with-virtualchroot --with-peruserlimits --with-ldap --with-rfc2640

make

sudo make install-strip

cd ..

rm -r pure-ftpd-1.0.32.tar.gz pure-ftpd-1.0.32

NOTE: ./configure .......... --with-rfc2640 (should be all one line)

Once you compiled this, FTP with SSL/TLS (FTPS) sessions will be secure.

You can download Pure-ftpd Manager 1.8 at

http://jeanmatthieu.free.fr/pureftpd/

Note I've Tested this with 10.7 Server and 10.6.8 Server

Worked for me too on 10.5.5 10.6.8 & 10.7

Nixe :)

ad "modify [INSERT USER NAME] all"

Where does this command go ?

I have the same problem that my FTP connections are read only.

Thanks !

M.