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Virtual Hosting With vsftpd And MySQL On Debian Etch

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Falko Timme
Jun 26, 2007

“Vsftpd is one of the most secure and fastest FTP servers for
Linux. Usually vsftpd is configured to work with system users. This
document describes how to install a vsftpd server that uses virtual
users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is
much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a
single machine.

“For the administration of the MySQL database you can use web
based tools like phpMyAdmin which will also be installed in this
howto. phpMyAdmin is a comfortable graphical interface which means
you do not have to mess around with the command line…”

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