TJ Saunders

If possible, the easiest thing to do is install ProFTPD via package, using something like `apt-get`.

Usually it does require admin privileges to install packages, yes. These packages have hardcoded locations where they install multiple files, and those locations often require `root` permissions to write the...

I wish I could provide better suggestions, but installing and running an FTP server is not easy, even for non-newbies. To answer your question of "is the check-file SFTP extension...

What are the contents of your `EnvironmentFile = -/etc/sysconfig/proftpd` file?

That's a good question; I'm not sure. The ProFTPD Project doesn't distribute package installations, or `systemd` files for ProFTPD, so I'm not sure who or what provided the above configuration...

OK. The ProFTPD Project doesn't provide any systemd configuration for ProFTPD, thus I'm assuming that you installed ProFTPD via some package. Is that correct? If so, which package, exactly? And,...

Can you apply https://github.com/proftpd/proftpd/pull/1088, and then use _e.g._: ``` AuthFileOptions CryptWithRoot ``` and verify that it works as you need?

So by "old code" and "new code", which versions are you referring to? I can make the `AuthFileOptions` directive work properly, but if the "new code" is working for your...

@ws0w Got it, thanks for the clarification. I've updated the PR to properly honor/use the configured `AuthFileOptions`, if you'd like to try it out?

I understand the motivation behind this patch, but given that MySQL deprecated this functionality, I'm not sure of the long-term value of recreating in _this_ separate ProFTPD project. Perhaps an...