Opened 20 months ago
Closed 19 months ago
#67202 closed defect (fixed)
pure-ftpd: Virtual users feature does not work out of the box
Reported by: | briankendall (Brian Kendall) | Owned by: | i0ntempest |
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Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
Component: | ports | Version: | |
Keywords: | Cc: | ||
Port: | pure-ftpd |
Description
I just installed pure-ftpd on a macOS 12 system and tried to set up a virtual user. A number of things went wrong that I needed to address manually that ought to just work out of the box when installing pure-ftpd.
First, attempting to add a virtual user using pure-pw useradd testuser -u 501 -g 501 -d ~
fails with the following error message:
No useable password hashing function found Please install libsodium (https://libsodium.org) and recompile pure-ftpd.
Apparently the binaries of pure-ftpd are not compiled with libsodium and therefore have no hashing function they can use for virtual users.
I worked around this by installing libsodium manually and then building pure-ftpd from source, i.e.:
port install libsodium port install -s pure-ftpd
Now I can create a virtual user, and update the database file with pure-pw mkdb
.
The next issue is that, while pure-ftpd's launch daemon is set up to use virtual users given that it uses the argument --login=puredb:/opt/local/etc/pure-ftpd/pdb/pureftpd.pdb
, trying to log in with my virtual user fails with the following:
421 Unable to read the indexed puredb file (or old format detected) - Try pure-pw mkdb
I thought this was odd, as I had run pure-pw mkdb
. However the default place pure-pw
places its database file is /opt/local/etc/pure-ftpd/conf/pureftpd.pdb
, where the launch daemon is configured to look for it at /opt/local/etc/pure-ftpd/pdb/pureftpd.pdb
. I worked around this with the following:
mkdir -p /opt/local/etc/pure-ftpd/pdb pure-pw mkdb /opt/local/etc/pure-ftpd/pdb/pureftpd.pdb
Now finally I can log in as my virtual users!
In summary, two issues need to be addressed for virtual users to work correctly out of the box:
- libsodium should be a requirement of pure-ftpd, and binaries of pure-ftpd should be compiled with libsodium to allowing hashing of virtual user passwords
- One of the arguments of the pure-ftpd launch daemon should be changed from:
--login=puredb:/opt/local/etc/pure-ftpd/pdb/pureftpd.pdb
to--login=puredb:/opt/local/etc/pure-ftpd/conf/pureftpd.pdb
so thatpure-pw mkdb
works as expected.
Change History (2)
comment:1 Changed 20 months ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)
Owner: | set to i0ntempest |
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Status: | new → assigned |
Summary: | Virtual users feature does not work out of the box → pure-ftpd: Virtual users feature does not work out of the box |
comment:2 Changed 19 months ago by i0ntempest
Resolution: | → fixed |
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Status: | assigned → closed |
Fixed in https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/commit/c0e73e5281fb46b8711955fa6b87f3559e47e279