RE: proftpd

["Jerry Lake" <jerryl europa com>]

Thanks, for the help.
it is up and running fine now.
I totally spaced on the .conf file.

Jerry Lake            - jerryl europa com
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-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-install-list-admin redhat com
[mailto:redhat-install-list-admin redhat com]On Behalf Of Kalum /
Grendel
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 6:43 AM
To: redhat-install-list redhat com
Cc: Jerry Lake
Subject: Re: proftpd


On  Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Jerry Lake commented thusly,

> I know I am a bit off topic here,
> but I'm trying to start proftpd

A excellent secure easily configured dropin ftp daemon, much better than
that buggy piece of utter thrash called Wu-ftpd. Its a excellent choice
you have made Jerry,

> and it keeps telling me unknown group 'nogroup'
> how do I fix this?

please edit your profptd.conf file , it normally is there as
/etc/proftpd.conf and change the following line.

# Set the user and group that the server normally runs at.
User                            nobody
Group                           nogroup

Set the Group to a group that is avilable on your system. Actually what
this means is that you set a group and a user of low access capability so
that if by any chance some *beep* hacks in through proftpd he cant do much
because he will be in as user nobody etc.
 
Or you can add a group called nogroup to your system using the groupadd
command, which I think should be the easier thing to do. 

BTW I am suprised doesnt RH have a group called nogroup available by
default, debian and other popular distros certainly have it.

Best Wishes,
Grendel


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