On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Δημήτρης Ζέρβας <01ttouch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > i know that, my problem is "central management" so my users can add their > domains etc. http://www.proftpd.org/docs/contrib/mod_sftp.html ... at work we run a setup that uses PAM to authenticate, but the PAM module ONLY looks at a Django database for users/etc (per a custom PAM service name) ... then we run proftpd specifically for SFTP-only access by external vendors. postgres is the DB in use (which, of course, there is no reason to run anything else because postgres is phenomenally more powerful and simple than ... others ;-). the files have been scrubbed (via regex, possibly subtly broken in process) but it should get you going; things to note as they will likely need attention: - targets debian, arch will need uid/gid tweaks, among others? - requires bcrypt django auth (if used) - requires pgcrypto for the target DB (if used ^^^^) ... all files are pretty well commented tho. HTH. https://gist.github.com/3651050 # tree . `-- etc |-- pam.d | `-- stuff |-- stuff | `-- proftpd.conf.head |-- stuff.pam_pgsql.conf `-- stuff.proftpd.conf -- C Anthony