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ProFTPD Core Module Documentation

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The following is a collection of HTML documentation for modules and tools in the modules/ directory of the ProFTPD source distribution.

The mod_auth module
Handles the login process/interaction with connecting clients
The mod_auth_file module
Handles authentication using AuthUserFile and AuthGroupFile
The mod_auth_pam module
Provides additional authentication checks via PAM
The mod_auth_unix module
Handles authentication using the system files, e.g. /etc/passwd and /etc/group
The mod_cap module
Adds additional privilege restrictions based on Linux capabilities and the libcap library
The mod_core module
Handles the core configuration directives and FTP commands
The mod_ctrls module
Implements the configuration and handling of control actions; see the Controls documentation for more details
The mod_delay module
Helps mitigate timing-based information leaks by automatically adding tuned delays to the login process
The mod_dso module
Handles the configuration of DSO modules
The mod_facl module
Implements POSIX ACL support
The mod_facts module
Handles the MFF, MFMT, MLSD and MLST FTP commands
The mod_ident module
Handles the IdentLookups configuration directive and IDENTD protocol lookups
The mod_lang module
Provides UTF8 and localised response string support, and handles the LANG FTP command
The mod_log module
Handles logging via syslog and directly to log files
The mod_ls module
Handles directory listings via the LIST, NLST, and STAT FTP commands
The mod_memcache module
Handles memcache configuration
The mod_redis module
Handles Redis configuration
The mod_rlimit module
Handles resource limits
The mod_site module
Handles basic FTP SITE commands: SITE CHGRP, SITE CHMOD, and SITE HELP
The mod_xfer module
Handles FTP uploads and downloads via the APPE, RETR, STOR, and STOU FTP commands

If your question or issue is not covered by any of these pages, please send a request to the ProFTPD documentation list. Directions for subscribing to the docs list, as well as the other ProFTPD mailing lists, are at:

  http://www.proftpd.org/lists.html

If you are looking to see if ProFTPD supports a particular feature, the first place to look as the complete list of configuration directives:

  Directives

The list may be intimidatingly long, but it is well worth scanning through all of the directives to see everything that ProFTPD is capable of supporting.

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