From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 11 18:12:19 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 BFED816A403 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:12:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from daeg@houston.rr.com) Received: from ms-smtp-01.texas.rr.com (ms-smtp-01.texas.rr.com [24.93.47.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A0F613C457 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:12:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from daeg@houston.rr.com) Received: from cpe-24-167-73-65.houston.res.rr.com (cpe-24-167-73-65.houston.res.rr.com [24.167.73.65]) by ms-smtp-01.texas.rr.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l3BICI93023686; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:12:18 -0500 (CDT) From: David J Brooks Organization: KC5WNK To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:12:17 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: In-Reply-To: X-Face: "\j?x](l|]4p?-1Bf@!wN<&p=$.}^k-HgL}cJKbQZ3r#Ar]\%U(#6}'?<3s7%(%(=?utf-8?q?gxJxxc=0A=09R=09nSNPNr*/=5E=7EStawWU9KDJ-CT0k=24f=23?=@t2^K&BS_f|?ZV/.7Q MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200704111312.18132.daeg@houston.rr.com> X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Cc: Derrill Guilbert Subject: Re: 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 18:12:19 -0000 On Wednesday 11 April 2007 12:26:42 pm Derrill Guilbert wrote: > 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. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-ftp.html David -- bureaucracy, n: A method for transforming energy into solid waste.