Posts Tagged ‘ftp’

ProFTPD shows incorrect GMT time with Plesk

A really really strange issue randomly appears with ProFTPD and Plesk occasionally. On the filesystem, a file will have a correct creation/modification date, but then when you view it over FTP, it’s always off by the amount of hours you differ from GMT.
For example, if the server is on Central Time, all [...]

Enabling SSL in ProFTPD

If you need to enable SSL in ProFTPD, try this out:
<IfModule mod_tls.c>
TLSEngine on
TLSRequired off
TLSRSACertificateFile /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt/server.crt
TLSRSACertificateKeyFile /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key/server.key
TLSVerifyClient off
</IfModule>

Group Editing With FTP

So you have multiple users that need to read and write to certain files on the filesystem? This can be done with vsftpd or proftpd quite easily. Let’s say you have users called ann, bill and carl and they need to manage files in /var/www/html. Here’s the steps:
For vsftpd, change the umask [...]