About:
ProFTPD is a proven, high-performance, scalable FTP server written from scratch, with a focus toward simplicity, security, and ease of configuration. Naturally, ProFTPD powers some of the largest sites on the Internet. It features a very Apache-like configuration syntax, modules, and a highly customizable server infrastructure, including support for multiple 'virtual' FTP servers, anonymous FTP, and permission-based directory visibility.

Author:
Korenwolf [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.15/10.00 (61 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.proftpd.org/
Tar/GZ:
ftp://ftp.proftpd.org/distrib/source/proftpd-1.3.1.tar.gz
Tar/BZ2:
ftp://ftp.proftpd.org/distrib/source/proftpd-1.3.1.tar.bz2
Changelog:
http://www.proftpd.org/docs/RELEASE_NOTES-1.3.1
Mirror site:
http://www.proftpd.org/download.html

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		No Input/Output (Daemon)
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Topic]		Internet :: File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Stable	1.3.1	05-Oct-2007	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Development	1.3.0rc4	07-Mar-2006	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Articles referencing this project

• Debian: New proftpd packages fix denial of service
  by Patrick Lenz , in Security
  Sun, Jan 14th 2007 07:46
  
• Debian: New proftpd packages fix several vulnerabilities
  by Patrick Lenz , in Security
  Mon, Dec 4th 2006 12:48
  
• Debian: New proftpd packages fix denial of service
  by Patrick Lenz , in Security
  Sat, Nov 25th 2006 13:34
  
• Debian: New proftpd packages fix format string vulnerability
  by Patrick Lenz , in Security
  Thu, Sep 1st 2005 22:55
  
• Debian: New proftpd packages fix SQL injection
  by Patrick Lenz , in Security
  Mon, Jun 30th 2003 07:28
  

 Comments

[»] Proftpd + MySQL _ symbolic link dir. not accessable
by boomy - Nov 25th 2005 10:22:38

Thank for the great FTP service!

I've just configured the chrooted ftp server in combination with Mysql for authentication.

Only one thing that I can't get to work is symbolic link directories to show up in the directorie list.

I get the error:
550 /data: Too many levels of symbolic links

What i did was from the ftp home dir going to a dir that was created with ls -s /data /blabla/data

Does somebody got an answer to my problem?
hope so :)

regards,

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[»] Re: Proftpd + MySQL _ symbolic link dir. not accessable
by boomy - Nov 25th 2005 10:36:39

As I was googling at symbolic links etc. instead of symlink I now found someting that solves my issue: http://www.castaglia.org/proftpd/doc/contrib/ProFTPD-mini-HOWTO-Chroot.html Case closed :)

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[»] fast installation - easy and powerful configuration
by Daniele Antoniazzi - Mar 25th 2002 03:59:49

Very fast compilation and installation (tried on RedHat 7.2).
Configuration really powerful and intuitive. I'm satisfied with it.
Many thanks to developers! Go like this.

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[»] Thank you for a great FTP daemon!
by Apollyon - Mar 8th 2002 18:35:34

I must say that ProFTPd is bar-none the best FTP daemon I have used.
It is the only FTP daemon I've seen that can gracefully withstand a harsh connect flood without dying.
(rain -t localhost -p 21 --connect)
Keep up the good work!

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[»] GUI
by Magnus-swe - Sep 13th 2001 17:50:50

Ive been running ProFTPD a long time now and i think its great, so i made a GUI called GProFTPD for the standalone version.

Thanks for a great server everyone.

Sincerely: Magnus-swe

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[»] SQL support
by Xavier Beaudouin - Feb 6th 2001 23:43:59

It's a shame that SQL support was removed. I've send some new features for SQL support and I neved had a reply from the author. This is realy a bad news that it was removed since the support was clean stable and usefull. And also easy to update, modify.

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[»] Re: SQL support
by Korenwolf - Feb 7th 2001 06:05:37


> It's a shame that SQL support was removed. I've send some
> new features for SQL support and I neved had a reply from the
> author. Another maintainer has volunteered to take over the ongoing fixes and development of the sql modules. We're hoping to get the security issues addressed so they can be included in 1.2.0-final (2-3 weeks time)

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[»] Re: SQL support
by Korenwolf - Feb 22nd 2001 09:22:58


> Another maintainer has volunteered to
> take over the ongoing fixes and SQL modules are now back in the CVS code, and will be included in -final

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[»] help
by rsheppard - Jun 12th 2000 07:59:56

this program despertly cries for easier configuration or a gui config editor. If anyone is good at it, email me. I'll give you money

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[»] Re: help
by Korenwolf - Feb 6th 2001 12:02:49


> this program despertly cries for easier
> configuration or a gui config editor. If
> anyone is good at it, email me. I'll
> give you money There isn't one on planned for 1.2.x or 1.3.x atm, however there are a couple of related projects on sourceforge.

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[»] Re: help
by Hannu Liljemark - Mar 2nd 2001 01:16:24


> this program despertly cries for easier
> configuration or a gui config editor.
easier configuration? the current config style is
very nice. if you need GUI to
configure something as important from the security
point of view as a ftpd is, you
shouldn't be running one. proftpd seems to be
safer than eg. wu-ftpd, but we don't
need any more badly managed ftp servers in the
inet that end up getting owned because the admin
has no idea what's going on in system.

thanks for the proftpd team for a truly amazing ftpd.

--liljis


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[»] Re: help
by Rough - Sep 17th 2001 03:04:16

Webmin now has a module for ProFTPd.

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