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Virtual Hosting With vsftpd and MySQL On Debian Squeeze

Virtual Hosting With vsftpd And MySQL On Debian Squeeze

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.

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  • Nathan Zachary Said:

    Why use vsftpd at all? Why not just use the sftp functionality that is built into OpenSSH?


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