sshftp scripts

A collection of Python scripts that (run Bash commands to) easily create LAMP instances in Docker. You can easily create and delete users on your Linux machine; these users can deploy and manage their websites via SSH and FTP.

Use Case

• Users need to be able to deploy their websites on this server
• Users need to be segregated during SSH and FTP sessions, i.e. they can't access another user's files
• In the SSH sessions, shared software like php, mysql should be accessible

Backstory

• Please see the file Backstory.md

Why Python and not Bash:

1. I'm trying to pick up Python
2. I don't actively use a Linux device at home

Acknowledgements

Thank you @glats for your alpine-lamp with phpmyadmin Dockerfile. It has helped me immensely in getting started with Docker and implementing my own image that suits the needs of this project. For more information, you may view the docker folder in this project.

Host System requirements

• Tested with Ubuntu 19.10
• Packages: net-tools, apache2, Python 3.7.5
• Apache: sudo a2enmod proxy proxy_http

Remember to switch to Python 3.7 from Python 2

(assuming you have 3.7.5 already installed)

# update-alternatives: --install needs <link> <name> <path> <priority>
# Therefore, run:

sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python python /usr/bin/python3 1

If you are starting with a fresh installation of Ubuntu

1. Navigate to the project root directory
2. Make the script executable: sudo chmod +x ./bash/setup.sh
3. Run setup.sh: ./bash/setup.sh. It will take care of the installation of the necessary packages for this project to run.

If you have already installed and configured the packages

sudo apt-get install docker.io # ONLY if Docker is not yet installed 
cd ./docker && sudo docker build -t $USER/alpine-lamp .

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./scripts and their functionalities

Standalone scripts

Run these scripts from the command line.

• create-users.py
• remove-user.py

create-users.py

Creates users from a CSV file. users.csv

Group,Username,Password
competitor,bb,bb123!
competitor,cc,cc123!

1. Navigate to project root directory
2. Run the script. Example:

# python ./scripts/create-users.py <new domain> <path to csv>
python ./scripts/create-users.py google.com ./sample-files/users.csv

Helper scripts

These scripts aid in the execution of the above standalone scripts by exporting functionalities into one Python function. They cannot be run from the command line.

• create_user.py: Handles creation of one user
• create_conf.py: Handles creation of .conf file for Apache
• create_docker.py: Handles creation of Docker container named after the user's username
• bash_commands.py: List of file paths to binaries, etc. to enable commands in the user's SSH shell
• copy_commands.py: Copies the binaries, etc. defined in bash_commands.py to the user's home directory