APM: Perl FTP server

Fluhmann, Jeremy jeremy at stuact.tamu.edu
Fri Dec 2 10:20:00 PST 2005


Ok, maybe I haven't been able to think through this, but here is what
I'm looking at:

 

My department hosts 400+ web sites for our student organizations.  Some
sites run on a Windows Server 2003 box w/ IIS 6.0, while the others run
on a Windows 2000 Server box w/ IIS 5.1.  They will be consolidating
soon to 2003/IIS 6.0.

Every semester, several students come by, call, and e-mail saying, "We
don't know our FTP username/password".  The information is never passed
along.  I get tired of resetting passwords.

 

What I want to experiment with is this:

All students have a university login.  I can write web applications that
can use this login for authentication (via CAS or LDAP).  I want to
allow the President of each organization to be able to add student
logins as webmasters for their site.  The student's login is stored in a
database, as well as each site that they can manage (some students are
webmasters for several groups).  I can already do all of this.

 

I want to be able to have these users use their student login to connect
via FTP.  I only want the folders for which they have access to be
displayed (using the information stored in the database).

 

I welcome any comments, suggestions, or criticisms that anyone has.  I
thought about trying to write my own FTP server.  I acknowledge that I
need to do some research on FTP server, since I'm not exaclty sure if I
could modify it to work like I want.  Since I'm fairly comfortable with
Perl, can anyone point me to resources for writing an FTP server in
Perl?  Also remember, I am currently on a Windows box.  I have a linux
test server running FC4 if suggestions are provided for a linux
solution.  I've been able to successfully map windows folders from my
web server to the linux box, but the permissions are confusing me a
little.  My boss prefers to keep everything running on the windows
boxes.

 

Thanks,

Jeremy

Jeremy Fluhmann

Microcomputer Specialist

Department of Student Activities

Texas A&M University

979-458-4649

jeremy at stuact.tamu.edu

 

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