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pure-authd(8) Pure-FTPd pure-authd(8)

NAME

pure-authd - External authentication agent for Pure-FTPd.

SYNTAX

pure-authd [-p </path/to/pidfile>] [-u uid] [-g gid] [-B] <-s /path/to/socket> -r /program/to/run

DESCRIPTION

pure-authd is a daemon that forks an authentication program, waits for an authentication reply, and feed them to an application server.

pure-authd listens to a local Unix socket. A new connection to that socket should feed pure-authd the following structure:

account:xxx

password:xxx

localhost:xxx

localport:xxx

peer:xxx

end

(replace xxx with appropriate values) . localhost, localport and peer are numeric IP addresses and ports. peer is the IP address of the remote client.

These arguments are passed to the authentication program, as environment variables:

AUTHD_ACCOUNT

AUTHD_PASSWORD

AUTHD_LOCAL_IP

AUTHD_LOCAL_PORT

AUTHD_REMOTE_IP

AUTHD_ENCRYPTED

The authentication program should take appropriate actions to fetch account info according to these arguments, and reply to the standard output a structure like the following one:

auth_ok:1

uid:42

gid:21

dir:/home/j

end

If xxx is 0, the user was not found (the next authentication method passed to pure-ftpd will be tried) . If xxx is -1, the user was found, but there was a fatal authentication error: user is root, password is wrong, account has expired, etc (next authentication methods will not be tried) . If xxx is 1, the user was found and successfully authenticated.
The system uid to be assigned to that user. Must be > 0.
The primary system gid. Must be > 0.
The absolute path to the home directory. Can contain /./ for a chroot jail.
When the command 'cd ~user' is issued, it's handy to go to that user's home directory, as expected in a shell environment. But fetching account info can be an expensive operation for non-system accounts. If xxx is 0, 'cd ~user' will expand to the system user home directory. If xxx is 1, 'cd ~user' won't expand. You should use 1 in most cases with external authentication, when your FTP users don't match system users. You can also set xxx to 1 if you're using slow nss_* system authentication modules.
The allocated bandwidth for uploads, in bytes per second.
The allocated bandwidth for downloads, in bytes per second.
The maximal total size for this account, in bytes.
The maximal number of files for this account.
The user must match a ratio_upload:ratio_download ratio.

Only one authentication program is forked at a time. It must return quickly.

OPTIONS

Have the daemon run with that uid.
Have the daemon run with that gid.
Fork in background (daemonization).
Set the full path to the local Unix socket.
Set the full path to the authentication program.
Output help information and exit.

EXAMPLES

To run this program the standard way type:

pure-authd -s /var/run/ftpd.sock -r /usr/bin/my-auth-program &

pure-ftpd -lextauth:/var/run/ftpd.sock &

/usr/bin/my-auth-program can be as simple as:
#! /bin/sh

echo 'auth_ok:1'

echo 'uid:42'

echo 'gid:21'

echo 'dir:/home/j'

echo 'end'

AUTHORS

Frank DENIS <j at pureftpd dot org>

SEE ALSO

ftp(1), pure-ftpd(8) pure-ftpwho(8) pure-mrtginfo(8) pure-uploadscript(8) pure-statsdecode(8) pure-pw(8) pure-quotacheck(8) pure-authd(8)

RFC 959, RFC 2389, RFC 2228 and RFC 2428.

1.0.47 Pure-FTPd team