easyFTPD

About

easyFTPD is a FTP-server constructed to easily handle virtual users. Most large ftp-servers are complicated to configure, especially when handling virtual users. easyFTPD simply handles a "users" configuration-file which lists virtual users and what they should access.

It should run on any unix-like system (linux/BSD/solaris...) and has python 2.3 (or higher) as its only dependancy.

Virtual users

The main idea of easyFTPD is to be able to quickly set up an ftp-server for virtual users. A users configuration file simply contains rows of data in the format:

username:password:permissions:share_path

where each field is specified like:

username = The username of the user (ex: buffi)
password = The plaintext password or salted passwordhash (ex: secretpass or 12345!0021eaf783f7743cb542f3920bfa508f368b1631)
permissions = The permissions granted for the user to the shared folder (ex: rw)
share_path = The folder that the user should have access to (ex: /home/buffi/ftp_share)

An example users file can look like this

pub:banana:r:/home/buffi/ftp_share/pub
buffi:skA3fas2:rw:/home/buffi
stabpaw:ujk3m!73cff165ea637d821f9ba5f9d11aa96333fd87d0:rw:/home/buffi/ftp_share/stabpaw

Quick start

Download the application and unpack it
Install it by issuing the following command as root

python setup.py install

Run it!

easyftpd

Optional arguments can be passed when starting the application. For an example, to run easyFTPD as a daemon process in the background on port 12345 start it with

easyftpd -p 12345 -d

Thanks to

The guys behind pyftpdlib which is used as the backbone of easyftpd.