Understanding concept: users for ftp and/or email?

[jmeyerdo]

Hi!

I am looking for an alternative solution for a Debian/SysCP-system, based on CentOS. The administration-panel ISPCONFIG looks very promising for that.

I am playing around with the VMWare-Appliance/Demo actually and studied the documentation/manual yesterday - I am really impressed about all the well working features!

At one point I have problems with understanding now:
Is it correct that every user of a site is an email-user and a ftp-user at the same time?
Which of the ftp-users can access the general web for the site? I added an additional user and he got his own web-folder under the directory "user".

With my previous understanding I need a
- ftp-user which can administer the website by ftp
- 1-xxx email-users which can administer their email/can read and send email.

Is such a "simple" solution possible with ISPCONFIG?

Thank you very much for your help,
kind regards!

Jens

[till]

Is it correct that every user of a site is an email-user and a ftp-user at the same time?

Yes, at least in the current 2.2.17 stable release.

In the 2.3.3 development release, ftp can be enabled / disabled for every user.

Which of the ftp-users can access the general web for the site?

The user where you enabled the "administrator" checkbox.

I added an additional user and he got his own web-folder under the directory "user".

Yes. All ISPConfig users except of the web admin can have their own user website.

Is such a "simple" solution possible with ISPCONFIG?

yes.

[jmeyerdo]

Hello!

Thank you very much for your prompt and helpful reply!
These are interesting news - I will give the dev-version a try now.

Perhaps you could help me with my following questions regarding this additional:
- Is it possible to install the actual dev-version with the existing how-to's for actual version?
- Which version does contain the features mentioned above: the nightly builds from SVN (stable or dev)?
- How "stable" is the actual dev-version?
- How long does it take until the next RC or stable of the actual dev-version will be released?

Thank you very much,
kind regards,

Jens

[till]

- Is it possible to install the actual dev-version with the existing how-to's for actual version?

yes.

- Which version does contain the features mentioned above: the nightly builds from SVN (stable or dev)?

The 2.3.3-dev version which can be downloaded from sourceforge.

- How "stable" is the actual dev-version?

It has currently no known bugs.

- How long does it take until the next RC or stable of the actual dev-version will be released?

I guess 1 - 2 months.

[jbravo]

Originally Posted by till

Yes, at least in the current 2.2.17 stable release.

In the 2.3.3 development release, ftp can be enabled / disabled for every user.

Cool news!
I'm also interested in enabling/disabling user webdir for every user (default disabled; ftp default disabled also - minimal permissions way).

Do you know if this feature will be available in next stable version (or current dev)?
I know that i can just disable mod_userdir in apache2 or set "0" to "WebSpace MB" for every user - but it is dirty way.

Seems to me that i need test machine (or virtual one) for testing cool new features in dev version

GreetZ .:JbRaVo:.

[falko]

Originally Posted by jbravo

Do you know if this feature will be available in next stable version

No, this won't be in the next stable version.