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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