Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:57:52 -0600 From: "Derrill Guilbert" <derrill@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: looking for something like an embedded ftp server Message-ID: <b5c1e1790704120857x75f3e85fw23dc6521308fdb54@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200704112225.20568.pieter@degoeje.nl> References: <b5c1e1790704111026p33d6ee93v7154f5abbbc74b14@mail.gmail.com> <200704111312.18132.daeg@houston.rr.com> <200704112225.20568.pieter@degoeje.nl>
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On 4/11/07, Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl> wrote: > > 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. I actually know how to set up a FreeBSD machine with FTP server, but was hoping there was something simpler - and therefore quicker, and theoretically more secure out of the box, with essentially nothing else running? I suppose this may be a silly request. :) Regardless, thank you for the link and the rc.conf suggestion. Derrill
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