Bandwidth logging by user

Gavin Westwood · External Since: Jul 01, 2007 Posts: 1

Hi. I've been providing hosting and mail services for about a year now,
and the usage is only now getting high enough that users may be
exceeding their bandwidth allowances. The problem is that I haven't
been able to find a tool in Debian that will report their combined
usage. I can work out the http from their website(s) stats, and their
mail usage from adding up Exim, and Courier POP3/IMAP, but it's an
annoying manual process, so I haven't bothered. Can anyone point me
towards a package/packages that can do this? Being able to
automatically email on exceeding of allowance would be a plus.

On a separate note I use vsftp for the ftp services, but am finding it
inflexible (e.g. want to have a site with anon read-only access for
downloads, as well as user secured as normal for their own websites).
Can anyone recommend another more flexible ftp server that still has a
good security record and will be picked up by the stats reporting
package required above?

Thanks

Gavin

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norbert_schuetz · External Since: Jul 02, 2007 Posts: 1

Hi Gavin

Gavin Westwood wrote:
> Hi. I've been providing hosting and mail services for about a year now,
> and the usage is only now getting high enough that users may be
> exceeding their bandwidth allowances. The problem is that I haven't
> been able to find a tool in Debian that will report their combined
> usage. I can work out the http from their website(s) stats

At least with average webhosting that's not really true. User can cause
traffic not caught by Apache (or whatever httpd is used). Just think of
fopen() URL wrappers in PHP etc. You might end up with more *incoming*
than outgoing traffic...

> and their
> mail usage from adding up Exim, and Courier POP3/IMAP, but it's an
> annoying manual process, so I haven't bothered. Can anyone point me
> towards a package/packages that can do this? Being able to
> automatically email on exceeding of allowance would be a plus.
>
> On a separate note I use vsftp for the ftp services, but am finding it
> inflexible (e.g. want to have a site with anon read-only access for
> downloads, as well as user secured as normal for their own websites).
> Can anyone recommend another more flexible ftp server that still has a
> good security record and will be picked up by the stats reporting
> package required above?

Well. never used vsftp. Maybe pureFTPd is worth a look. You've got to
get used to the way it get's configured but after that it jsut runs like
a charm.

Norbert

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John · External Since: Jul 05, 2007 Posts: 1

Hello Marcel,

We use Vasco tokens (GO 1) with software from Stadrin (www.stadrin.com)
and this works well with ssh access as well as PHP. I don't remember
exactly what we have paid but it was not more than USD 100 per license
(excluding the token).

They helped us at the time to implement in Debian which they do support.
It has worked flawlessly since.

John

Marcel Hicking wrote:
> Hi folks
>
> We'd like to secure a Apache/PHP-based web application login with
> one time passwords (with one of those nifty keychain or creditcard
> style hardware tokens).
>
>>From what I see there is RSA (mostly windows focused), Aladdin
> (claim some Linux support) and CryptoToken (claim to have an .so
> with a PHP binding iirc).
>
> Could anyone recommend one of the above on Debian (or any other)?
>
> Tokens see to be arround 80 USD/EUR but I couldn't find out much
> about software license fees. Any estimates?
>
>
> TIA,
> Norbert
>

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