From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 11 17:55:50 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 260F916A40E for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:55:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derrill@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.237]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E183713C4B9 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:55:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derrill@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 50so191883wra for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:55:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=diu3vNWks1G9Meu9mltLs9IcEfN4GhF/xYQDFxDNWSaF9G5/p4HeanGex1KLBKtyRqMyEvOquI0jzhkF2uyYY6e75AOqVA8VtGDeYplCIqW/MY4VC8nkxo66r1ss+wP2LAP/ezrzbkgKuqdyPHoDOVPdGEqgctQExvIGS2CwLXI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=FBJ6wq1PL7Z9NMqR6Le7w0tA66ZGn5VDP/kOxTXEWasiCizcqFgupUA1rHT10qGN30IUH8KJs4LuzLzx0ObvWljOUdS08UrY28f31/LKvhB2yXqsyugYhzuFdM1E4FrK7gmVsJR3XyisDjhk1K9YYWXmEksJw+cyxpxbTzHDR3E= Received: by 10.114.60.19 with SMTP id i19mr362657waa.1176312402305; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:26:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.130.11 with HTTP; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:26:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:26:42 -0600 From: "Derrill Guilbert" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: looking for something like an embedded ftp server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:55:50 -0000 I've been given an old machine, and asked to turn it into an ftp server. It will got on its own IP, separate from the one our LAN uses. It will have three read-only users and maybe five read/write users. It will contain design data that we're transferring to the offices in China. That is, we will upload it from here in at the main office, and the China staff will download it to implement the little containers we're building. This does not need to be secure beyond password protection necessarily, though some sort of secure FTP would be fine. What I would really prefer is some sort of BSD based simple FTP server setup. I've found several BSD based router/firewall/whatever servers out there, such as m0n0wall and pfsense, among others, and I would like something that simple for an FTP server. That is, I want to be able to install the server and then only have to configure users, no mess with hardening things and setting up pf or so ... Does such a thing exist? Am I needlessly complicating things for myself in another way (often the case, I'm little more than a user when it comes to FreeBSD)? Any kind of guidance on this topic would be appreciated --- if what I want to do can be done with a custom install of FreeBSD, that'd be wonderful also. Thank you in advance for any guidance. Derrill