per-user ftp traffic accounting ... possible ?

Jez Hancock jez.hancock at gmail.com
Sat Mar 11 02:09:22 UTC 2006


On 3/6/06, Ensel Sharon <user at dhp.com> wrote:
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>
> I am using the standard, stock FreeBSD ftpd, running out of inetd.
>
> Is there any way to keep track of how much ftp traffic is generated by
> each individual user ?
>
>
You could use ipfw to count the traffic to/from each user - something like
this will count traffic for the user foo:

ipfw add count all from any to any uid foo

See my sig for a hack that implements this.

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Jez Hancock
- System Administrator / PHP Developer

http://ipfwstats.sf.net/        - ipfw peruser traffic logging


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