Support for authentication in ftpd

[Joel Sherrill]

On 04/28/2010 03:23 AM, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
>   Hoi all,
>
>   I'm going to add some form of authentication to ftpd.  The idea is that
> I'll add a hook function to the configuration that returns permissions per
> file or directory on which an operation is executed.  It would be used
> instead of the global access configuration (with the global access
> configuration as a fall-back).
>
>   Is anybody else interested?  Any remarks or other approaches I should
> consider?
>    
I think it would be a nice feature especially if it followed
the format of the login plugin setup for telnetd.  Then
an authentication engine could work with either one.

--joel
>   Regards,
>   Arnout
>