title: Using Pure-ftpd with extauth and not wanting to fire off manual pure-authd pure-ftpd commands
body: <p>Pure-ftpd has the option to create your own authentication module, however it requires runtime work to get it up:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Now, we have to run pure-authd and pure-ftpd, to connect them through a
  local socket and to tell pure-ftpd to use our external authentication module:
  
  pure-authd -s /var/run/ftpd.sock -r /usr/bin/ftp-auth-handler &amp;
  pure-ftpd  -lextauth:/var/run/ftpd.sock &amp;
  
  That's all. Now, we can only log in as 'john', as all FTP authentication is
  done by the shell script.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is there a way to accomplish these two commands in the configuration?</p>