Re: proftpd as a service under 2003

[Chris Stromsoe <cbs at cts dot ucla dot edu>]

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, René Berber wrote:
> Chris Stromsoe wrote:
> > > How did you setup proftpd as service?
> >
> > cygrunsrv --install proftpd --path /usr/sbin/proftpd.exe --args 
> > "nodaemon" --type auto --disp "Cygwin proftpd" --desc "ProFTP FTP 
> > daemon" --user sshd_server -e CYGWIN="ntsec"
>
> Is that a typo? the option nodaemon is written as --nodaemon or -n.

it's a typo.  It's "--nodaemon".

> > "cygrunsrv --start proftpd" after that fails.
> ...
> > If I run without specifying --user, proftpd runs as SYSTEM.  It does not
> > change users at all.  If I log in with other users and upload files, the
> > files all end up owned by the SYSTEM user.
>
> I know all about that, but you can see your result, the error message 
> you posted clearly states that the user could not change to SYSTEM... 
> again: did you configyro proftpd correctly?

It's the default configuration.

Which, it turns out is the problem.  Thanks for the hint.  Apparently, the 
created user (sshd_server) can't switch to SYSTEM at startup, but has no 
problems switching to other users after proftpd is already running.  So 
/etc/proftpd.conf needs to specify the same user that you give to 
cygrunsrv, or it won't start the service.


-Chris
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