Turn off ProFTPd completely?

[SlashChick]

Hello,

One of my clients has a dedicated with DirectAdmin. He'd like to turn off proftpd completely for security reasons (he uses SFTP.) What's the best way to do this? I ran chkconfig --level 2345 proftpd off, but DA's service will still auto-restart proftpd if it discovers it is not running.

I would like to keep it installed in case he needs to run it at some point in the future.

Thank you!

 

[nobaloney]

Shut it down in the admin control panel.

Then find the daemon's executable file, and rename it from proftpd to proftpd.off

Then no one can restart it.

Jeff

 

[DirectAdmin Support]

Yes, DA won't restart a service if it's set to OFF in the /usr/local/directadmin/data/admin/services.status file.

John

 

[nobaloney]

John,

The reason I answered the way I did was to make sure it won't restart automatically on a reboot.

Can you verify that turning it off in the control panel will keep it from coming back up in a reboot?

Thanks.

Jeff

 

[DirectAdmin Support]

Hello,

Jeff, you are correct, hence my "yes" . Disabling it with "chkconfig proftpd off" or by editing the boot script or renaming the binary will all work.

John

 

[SlashChick]

This worked...thanks!