trying to sync up proftpd and postfix virtual accounts

I have some experience with servers. I run a single domain mail box at work. I also have a VPS where I setup postfixadmin and virtual email accounts/domains. I am now setting up my first dedicated server and I want to install postfix with virtual accounts as well as proftpd. I don't run an web host, but I host sites for my aunt, a couple friends, and a couple of my own sites.

What I want to do is to see how you guys handle single authentication between things like ftp and mail. I use pam_mysql for the mail and I think I could do the same thing with proftpd except the tables are different so I would have to sync password changes from the postfixadmin mail tables to the proftpd user tables.

Do you guys use ldap instead of pam? Is there some way I am not finding of combining these things? I just want my friends to be able to ftp files up instead of giving out ssh accounts for scp like I have been doing.

Thanks

 

 

 

 

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