I need to be able to provide secure ftp access to to users who purchase hosted services. In other words the Drupal site will be selling services for a fee that include the need to give the users a secure ftp account as part of the package.

We need to allow them to purchase their service package and be emailed the login and password to configure the FTP backup client.

Does this system in any way facilitate such a task or is it just for provisioning Drupal sites?

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adrian’s picture

adrian commented

Billing hasn't been worked on yet, but is planned.

And it should be pretty simple to write an ftp provisioning contrib module.

Hosting is just the core, and can be extended to provision different services.

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anarcat commented
Project: Hostmaster (Aegir) » Hosting

This would be performed by a hosting module, in my opinion.

In fact, I believe that the Drupal user database, if we want to create a real hosting service with this, needs to be backed by an LDAP database or similar, or shared directly with a MySQL-aware FTP server.

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Leeteq commented

Subscribing.

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anarcat commented

Note that I have accomplished some of this within the Security between sites issue by using the Drupal 'users' database as a backing for the name lookups on the filesystem.

So I do not think this is directly hostmaster-related at this point. I do think it would be interesting to have a field in the users table (or somewhere else) detailing access levels (FTP, SSH, etc...).

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adrian commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

closing old support request.