FTP

I wanted to set up ftp for web publishing, multiples users and web sites.
i.e. pretending I'm an ISP providing users with web hosting services.
So how do users upload their web pages?

ProFTPD is the defult server on Mandrake 9.1.
I thought it wasn't working, and I was right, OOPS!
DUH!, root can't ftp by default in a lot of FTP servers.
Apparently ProFTPD is one of them.

I added a user laurio and made the home directory /var/www/html/laurio
I was able to put a file there and later view it in my browser.
Later reprimanded by Cserve linux sysop.
Now using /home/laurio/public_html

Looks like there are all kinds of configuration options.
See http://proftpd.linux.co.uk/docs/example-conf.html

The ProFTPD configuration file is /etc/proftpd.conf