Subject: Re: FTP Concurrent connections
To: Luke Mewburn <lukem@wasabisystems.com>
From: Patrick Lessard <plessard@cgocable.ca>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 06/14/2001 09:00:21
I've ready everything and nothing help.

Could you recommend another ftpd, like wu-ftpd or something else that would to
that??

Thanks.

Pat.

Luke Mewburn wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 05:27:28PM -0400, Patrick Lessard wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > I would like to limit 1 ftp connection per ip address using the same
> > account.
> >
> > How can I do this??
> >
> > I'm running 1.5
>
> (I assume you mean for incoming ftp connections to the NetBSD ftpd daemon)
>
> There's no easy support for this in NetBSD's ftpd for this specific
> behaviour (any given user `foo' is only allowed one connection per
> IP address `a.b.c.d'), unless you wanted to create ftpusers(5) and
> ftpd.conf(5) entries for every user and address combination (which
> would not be pretty, would be slow, and I don't recommend this).
>
> Have a read of ftpusers(5) about defining a class, and ftpd.conf(5)
> about using a class, and /usr/share/examples/ftpd/* for example config
> files.
>
> Luke.