From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 12 15:57:54 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 82C6F16A400 for ; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:57:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derrill@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.224]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2F5B13C484 for ; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:57:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derrill@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 70so532391wra for ; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:57:53 -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:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=MGfIIJmM4/rNpcsJHqcMib0uAEXz8AuWZKj+2LDibSdQC7XB8QywTSitaQLpBNxhEjr1chyk4/eIOlwR9njqtXwvvFn+uZBBYYUaozupS6ceL5jSRkBWkd4Xy/qZT/EcWc7XEvgvtLRc2pi+mSncM6+etEOB8jm7KEO6ydr+Als= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=C1otCeU3TKaFV4J1ILc7oXqUG3k6Zv6dlY4pASi8WGfHCZmzt1nwUlfkRMW/jcRB5LK+hBZPVn9N9nwbkbtTZDMRjz1tRamlftNju53L6R0Jcm4dvCGtbQsj9dnko3zLiZqvum74EcGYdR833kfbSB3ZA131fWO2BGF+qaSBGBM= Received: by 10.114.113.1 with SMTP id l1mr800441wac.1176393472731; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:57:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.130.11 with HTTP; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:57:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:57:52 -0600 From: "Derrill Guilbert" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200704112225.20568.pieter@degoeje.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <200704111312.18132.daeg@houston.rr.com> <200704112225.20568.pieter@degoeje.nl> 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: 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: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:57:54 -0000 On 4/11/07, Pieter de Goeje 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