Re: FTP authenticate against MS SQL

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From: Jeff Cochran (jeff.nospam_at_zina.com)
Date: 09/08/04 

Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 14:42:08 GMT

On 7 Sep 2004 10:27:58 -0700, coolneo@yahoo.com (coolneo) wrote:

>I'd like to get FTP to authenticate using a Microsoft SQL table. I
>want to do this because we have a web site that inputs
>username/password to a SQL table. It would be great if I can used use
>that information to have our web users login to an FTP server.

Might be able to with a third party FTP server.

>I have been able to get a database driven login to work with ProFTPd
>and MySQL, but I would like to use the already existing database
>instead of replicating the data.

Work with the ProFTPd support folks to change the database then. The
Microsoft FTP server doesn't support a database for authentication, so
you'll need to find an alternate product.

Jeff

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