basic_vsftpd Cookbook

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A basic cookbook to install and configure the vsftpd package.

All vsftpd configuration options can be set using this cookbook, and no "helpful" defaults are provided. See Attributes for details.

Supported platforms

This cookbook has only been tested for Ubuntu 14.04.

Testing/adding support for other platforms is encouraged. See Contributing.

Recipes

default

This recipe:

• installs the vsftpd package
• renames the original vsftpd.conf file to vsftpd.conf.orig for reference
• creates a new vsftpd.conf configuration file from node['basic_vsftpd']['config']['...'] attributes
• if node['basic_vsftpd']['config']['user_config_dir'] is set, creates an empty user config directory
• enables and starts the vsftpd service

chroot_list

Creates a chroot_list file for vsftpd from node attributes. See Other attributes for details. If you don't want to use this recipe, you can create the chroot_list file manually.

userlist

Creates a userlist file for vsftpd from node attributes. See Other attributes for details. If you don't want to use this recipe, you can create the userlist file manually.

Resources

user_conf

This resource creates a user configuration file in the vsftpd user_config_dir directory.

Properties:

• user, string, name property, the name of the user
• content, string, the content of the user config file

Actions:

• :create, :delete

Note: This resource requires the node['basic_vsftpd']['config']['user_config_dir'] attribute to be set and for the directory to exist.

Attributes

vsftpd config attributes

Only two vsftpd configuration attributes are set by default. The default values are the same as the vsftpd defaults, and are set only to make the defaults available to the node.

• node['basic_vsftpd']['config']['chroot_list_file'], default: '/etc/vsftpd.chroot_list'
• node['basic_vsftpd']['config']['userlist_file'], default: '/etc/vsftpd.user_list'

To set other vsftpd.conf attributes

# string attributes:
default['basic_vsftpd']['config']['option_name'] = 'string_option_value'
# YES/NO attributes
default['basic_vsftpd']['config']['yesno_option_name'] = 'YES' # or 'NO'
# numeric attributes
default['basic_vsftpd']['config']['numeric_option_name'] = 12345
default['basic_vsftpd']['config']['numeric_option_name'] = '12345' # also OK

Note: When setting node['basic_vsftpd']['config'][...] attributes using Ruby, each should be set individually, not all at once using a Ruby hash. That is,

# Yes
default['basic_vsftpd']['config']['option1'] = 'setting1'
default['basic_vsftpd']['config']['option2'] = 'setting2'

# NO!
default['basic_vsftpd']['config'] = {
  'option1' => 'setting1',
  'option2' => 'setting2'
}

Other attributes

• node['basic_vsftpd']['chroot_list'], default: [ ], used by the chroot_list recipe, list of user names to fill vsftpd's chroot_list file.
• node['basic_vsftpd']['userlist'], default: [ ], used by the userlist recipe, list of user names to fill vsftpd's userlist file.

Requirements

Contributing

Examples:

Often the real trick is in configuring vsftpd, for a specific application, but that's outside the scope of this cookbook. Please consider documenting useful configuration examples by adding a page to the wiki.

Code:

1. Fork the repository on Github
2. Create a named feature branch (like add_component_x)
3. Write your change
4. Write tests for your change (if applicable)
5. Run the tests, ensuring they all pass
6. Submit a Pull Request using Github

License and Authors

Author: Tom Wilson (tom at rollnorocks.com)

Copyright (C) 2015, Tom Wilson

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.