proftpd | detailed installation instructions , see the INSTALL file | FTP library

I'm trying to have full access to my CentOS8 VPS (ie accessing root directory /) through a mounted cURLFTPFS directory on my local Archlinux system. However no config seems to allow me to mount anything other than the user's home directory (/home/admin).

I've tried all combinations of:

• Setting the line DefaultRoot / admin in /etc/proftpd.conf
  
• Setting the line DefaultChdir / in /etc/proftpd.conf
  
• Mounting with curlftpfs vps.example.com mountpoint
  
• Mounting with curlftpfs vps.example.com/ mountpoint
  
• Mounting with curlftpfs vps.example.com// mountpoint
  
• Mounting with curlftpfs vps.example.com:/ mountpoint
  
• Mounting with curlftpfs vps.example.com:// mountpoint
  

Preemptive responses:

• I'm using ProFTPD
• The user I'm connecting with is admin
• Login details are set in .netrc
• I'm not using a VirtualHost in the proftpd config file.
• I am not forgetting to systemctl reload proftpd

Any advice would be highly welcomed.

I reinstalled an old XAMPP program on my PC because an error occurred on the old one. Unfortunately, I forgot to stop the three servers before uninstalling. Now I always get an error

XAMPP: Stopping Apache ... not running. XAMPP: Stopping MySQL ... ok. XAMPP: Stopping ProFTPD ... not running.

If I want to start the three new servers of the new XAMPP program. I now suspect that the old processes did not end after uninstalling the old program. I also ended my Apache2 server, which also runs on my PC. I have already looked into the system monitoring but found nothing.

I'm following the book "Black Hat Python", the author creates a TCP proxy, but I can't seem to make it work.

Here's the code that I'm using:

Let's say I have the below yaml:

How do you make it so that an already compiled python script that was turned into a .exe import a config file?

Here is what I have:

Using Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and ProFTPD 1.3.5e.

I have ProFTPD serving FTP on ports 20, 21 and running just fine.

When I add in /etc/proftpd/conf.d/sftp.conf, FTP quits working. When I delete the sftp.conf and restart proftpd, FTP starts working again. I conclude that there is something wrong with this conf file.

Also, I want sftp to accept just a login id and password for authentication. How do I do that? I have looked at the SFTPAuthMethods directive and it looks like if I leave it out then it will allow all authentication methods and that is okay with me.

Here is the sftp.conf file:

Good day to you all!

I have a Ubuntu 18.04 LTS server with MySQL 8.0 and ProFTPD 1.3.5e Server.

I used these instructions to set up MySQL authentication for ProFTPd.

https://medium.com/@nico26deo/how-to-set-up-proftpd-with-a-mysql-backend-on-ubuntu-c6f23a638caf

And it works great!

The article above sets up the first user "test" with a UID of 5500 and a GID of 5500. It says that the FTP user directory should be created and chowned to 5500:5500. All very nice.

What it does not say is what to do when the second and third and successive users come along. It is easy to create new users in the database with an INSERT query but should the UID and GID be unique to the new ftp user? If so, is there an easy way to get MySQL to AUTO_INCREMENT the new values above 5500 and 5500 respectively?

Obviously, outside of that query, I will need an auxiliary process that creates the directory and chowns it to the correct UID and GID in the database. My thoughts is as follows:

1. INSERT the new ftp user name, password, homedir into the database. This would include what ever UID and GIU need to be inserted.
2. Create a beanstalkd task to create homedir for the new ftp user and pass the ftp user name used in the SELECT query.
3. The FTP server would check beanstalkd and find out it has a task to perform.
4. The FTP server would query the db for the details associated with the new ftp user. (e.g. homedir, UID,GID,etc)
5. The FTP server would create the new user's homedir and chown it to the UID and GID in the database.

So to make my questions crystal clear:

1. Should the UID and GID be unique to the new ftp user?
2. And if so, in the context of ProFTPD auth from MySQL, is there an easy way to get MySQL to AUTO_INCREMENT the new values starting at 5500 and 5500 respectively?

Thanks!

Proftpd 1.3.5e Server on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

How do I set up verbose logging for ProFTPd such that the ftp USER and filename and IP address and timestamp all show up on one line? For each file name uploaded and/or downloaded? One line per file?

Thanks!

Sorry if the title is not accurate to what I am trying to do. It was the best way of explaining my problem at the time.

Okay so on to my problem:

I am trying to create a Tkinter program that when a button is clicked a program that I have created will run in the background and will not stop the user from using the Tkinter program. (Sorry, I really hope you understand this) The closest thing I can think of, that is doing something similar to what I am trying to do, is when you click the "scan this computer" on your anti-malware. It runs the scan but still allows the user to click cancel and go about the program if they want. I am able to get the program to run the command but every time it focuses all of its' attention on the scan and I (the user) can no longer browse about the program.

I have tried using multi-threading but I cant tell if I am supposed to use that for the program or if I am supposed to use multi-processing, I don't know.

(I don't know if when you paste all of this into a file if it will work or not) I will try to post as much of the code as possible: