From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 11 20:25:29 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 BA16E16A401 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:25:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pieter@degoeje.nl) Received: from smtp.utwente.nl (smtp2.utsp.utwente.nl [130.89.2.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43AEF13C48C for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:25:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pieter@degoeje.nl) Received: from nox.student.utwente.nl (nox.student.utwente.nl [130.89.165.91]) by smtp.utwente.nl (8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id l3BKPKox007382; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:25:21 +0200 From: Pieter de Goeje To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:25:20 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <200704111312.18132.daeg@houston.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <200704111312.18132.daeg@houston.rr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200704112225.20568.pieter@degoeje.nl> X-UTwente-MailScanner-Information: Scanned by MailScanner. Contact helpdesk@ITBE.utwente.nl for more information. X-UTwente-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-UTwente-MailScanner-From: pieter@degoeje.nl X-Spam-Status: No Cc: Derrill Guilbert , David J Brooks 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 20:25:29 -0000 On Wednesday 11 April 2007, David J Brooks wrote: > 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 You can also run ftpd without inetd: adding ftpd_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf should do the trick. Cheers, Pieter