[Bug 477] Config of pure-ftpd need to be simplified.

[Stefan Hornburg (Racke)]

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Comment:
README.Debian contains a pointer to the pure-ftpd-wrapper manual page,
isn't that sufficient ?

[Stefan Hornburg (Racke)]

pure-ftpd is in fact unlike other unix services as it per se is only configurable per command line switches. You can talk to me about the configuration scheme used in Debian, no problem.

[Tristan Hill]

pure-ftpd comes with its own wrapper script (configuration-file/pure-
config.*) which will build the command line options from a configuration
file (which could be /etc/pure-ftpd/pure-ftpd.conf). It seems
unfortunate that both debian and gentoo have decided to invent their own
scheme, particularly for users of both type of system.

[pengu]

I agree with this. The pure-ftpd command line configuration is very
simple, but this "1 option = 1 file" wrapper used in the ubuntu package
is very unconfortable. It should be changed.

[Bilge]

I thought the pure-ftpd package would simplify my installation of the
software but when I came across this problem I quickly removed it,
compiled manually from the sources and wrote my own init.d script
instead. Why? Because pureftpd SHIPS with both a perl and a python
script to launch the daemon from a single config file already. Whoever
designed this ludicrous package clearly had no intention of ever using
the software at all. There is simply no reason to reinvent this software
with any crazy distribution paradigms: one documented configuration
file, job done.

[Julien Roncaglia]

I think that this issue should really be fixed in debian (or ubuntu
directly if debian doesn't move) as it is really an usability nightmare
to have one application where the distribution (and not the application)
insist on a totally different configuration scheme than all others...

[Julien Roncaglia]

I think that this issue should really be fixed in debian (or ubuntu
directly if debian doesn't move) as it is really an usability nightmare
to have one application where the distribution (and not the application)
insist on a totally different configuration scheme than all others...
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[Julien Roncaglia]

** Also affects: pure-ftpd (Debian)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New

[Julien Roncaglia]

** Also affects: pure-ftpd (Debian)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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[R. Daneel Olivaw]

Has this issue been submitted to the maintainer of the debian package ?
If I get no response, I'll try to do that.

[Stefan Hornburg (Racke)]

Post by R. Daneel Olivaw
Has this issue been submitted to the maintainer of the debian package ?
If I get no response, I'll try to do that.

Yes, the maintainer of the Debian package is aware of this Ubuntu bug.

Regards
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[Stefan Hornburg (Racke)]

Post by R. Daneel Olivaw
Has this issue been submitted to the maintainer of the debian package ?
If I get no response, I'll try to do that.

Yes, the maintainer of the Debian package is aware of this Ubuntu bug.

Regards
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[R. Daneel Olivaw]

Has this issue been submitted to the maintainer of the debian package ?
If I get no response, I'll try to do that.
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[flint]

5 years passed without any further action being done on this report. Are
they still aware that they need to fix this issue? Why can't Ubuntu make
their own fix?
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[Mark Stosberg]

I agree that the one-option-per-file scheme feels awkward. I would also
prefer to have all the options in one file.
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[Paulo Sergio Soares]

How do I turn on the -P "Force the specified IP address" option with
this new awkward one-option-per-file scheme?

Thanks in advance
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[Paulo Sergio Soares]

Just found it: ForcePassiveIP
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[Brett Patterson]

The biggest issue I see is that in the documentation for PureFTP it
states you can repeat an option "-d" to allow for logging of server
responses as well. How do you accomplish this in the option per file
scheme?
- '-d': Send various debugging messages to the syslog. Don't use this
unless you really want to debug Pure-FTPd. Passwords aren't logged.
Duplicate '-d' to log responses, too.
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[Brett Patterson]

I ended up editing the wrapper to allow for a second file "VerboseLog2"
to provide the second "-d" since there was no other way I could see to
allow the "-d -d" option in the daemon command.
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[Aram Akhavan]

I just installed pure-ftpd for the first time, and this config system is
absolutely ludicrous. I can't believe it hasn't changed in 10 years.
Instead of a wrapper script, why not just call pure-ftpd /etc/pure-ftpd
/pure-ftpd.conf...
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[Jake Magee]

Obviously, this package has been updated since the original bug /
feature ticket was placed. Is it possible that the ability to use a
single conf file (with options as documented in the upstream package)
was added and the ticket just hasn't been updated?
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