Blogged by buffi

… and you can get it here!

Setting up virtual users in most unix/linux-FTP-servers is actually a lot harder than it should be so I decided to create an easy to use FTP-server, targeted at virtual users.

I started off with an implementation using twisted but I soon found pyftpdlib which fitted this project perfectly. Since pretty much everything you need is already implemented, the application became reduced to programming a wrapper around pyftpdlib and setting it up for easy configuration and deployment.

The first version can be found here, and I really like the way it turned out. Creating virtual users are simply done by adding them to a users-file with the syntax

username:password:permissions:share_folder

where password might be a salted hash, or plaintext. More info on user configuration here.

Getting it running is as easy as first installing it by doing the following as superuser

python setup.py install

It can then be started with or without options

easyftpd              # Default settings
easyftpd -p 2100 -s   # Port 2100 and silent (no logging)
easyftpd -p 12345 -d  # Port 12345 and running as daemon

Information about more options and the configuration file can be found at the project page.

Hopefully I’m not the only one who has needed an easy to use FTP-server. proFTPD is simply too scary for me

buffi Programming & scripting, Python