solaris or linux sftp/ftp-server

funksen · #1 (**permalink**) 10-01-2009

Hi,

we have a big problem,

history:
we migrated our companies ftp and sftp-server, which were vsftp and openssh, to one server, software is called JSCAPE ftp server professional edition
for the first time everything was great, but after one or two months, our uploads hang, 0 byte files are created, very very slow uploads in comparison to openssh, users are dying, means they can't log in from one moment to another and must be recreated, and so on
new installs on the same machine or other machines with different operating systems leaded to the same troubles after a period of time
support is doing nothing, response time up too one! week
so we must go away from this product

we need a sftp/ftp server with centralized user management, having an chroot environment, (I don't mean something like jailkit, copying needed binarys, special files and /etc files to a subfolder, I mean a real chroot like vsftp or proftp provide, eg. the user must not change above his ftp home directory)
an admin should be able to choose sftp/ftp or both for every user
filesystem quotas for ftp and sftp

platform can be linux/bsd/solaris x86 or sparc solaris,

does anyone know such a product, open source or not? or a way to configure basic tools like openssh, vsftp like that?

I really need your help guys!

thanks in advance

funksen

vbe · #2 (**permalink**) 10-01-2009

Anything else being "slowed" down?
(FIN_WAIT type issue?)

funksen · #3 (**permalink**) 10-01-2009

hi vbe,

just sftp and ftp over jscape, ftp and sftp over os openssh and ftpd are working fine

same through firewall and in the same subnet

the main problem are hanging uploads, resulting in 0 byte files

vbe · #4 (**permalink**) 10-02-2009

Might sound silly...
Have you tried rebooting the server? Has no effect?
Is it using java stuff (possible issue with j garbage collector?)

funksen · #5 (**permalink**) 10-02-2009

I've rebooted the systems several times ( was running on sparc sol 10, then centos 5.3)

the ftp-server is completely written in java, should have known that it MUST give trouble with a java ftp server ^^

the garage collector runs every few seconds
I've written a script, running in cron, uploading files and logging times

Code:

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timestamp on the left, seconds needed on the right
it's always the same 2mb file

fpmurphy · #6 (**permalink**) 10-02-2009

Humm, the requirement for user quotas negates the ability to go the usual virtual users/PAM/database route. What made you move away from vsftpd and openssh?

funksen · #7 (**permalink**) 10-05-2009

thank you vbe and fpmurphy for your answers

@vbe
java has enough resources, 4gb for an ftp-server should be enough, maximum of 10 concurrent users
but I'll check this issue

and thanks for the tool, unfortunately it has no sftp support, just ftps

@fpmurphy
we moved because we wanted one single product with one administration interface.
vsftp was administrated from a http gui, mysql database, and openssh over local machine users. know that it's possible to use openldap for authentication for both, and perhaps we will do this

I've found another ftp-server that is capable of sftp with extension modules, the good old proftpd

any experiences on this?

cheers funksen

Edit:
got another requirement, grml
users must be able to change their passwords, over http interface or ftp directly, site command or something like that

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