From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 17 00:51:25 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C9B116A4CE for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 00:51:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 290EE43D1F for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 00:51:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from alfredoj69@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 70so2645683wra for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 16:51:22 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=AAhQaX2/s8Py2SaXVehymUOaiiBZdaXXZJi/dE2g5TiIkv5HFu27pYcdBSkku/4kA+wEEOLdvgf2iI+sSpUJCJxsE1bAsEgJNQeXNXNZx2MTz0JyW8GF5vOSAU9xWf9/ZzN75mIjfSQMMLxgzLOg80OkYMzV1msSyXBywosALJg= Received: by 10.54.35.69 with SMTP id i69mr174809wri; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 16:51:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost ([70.24.135.21]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 66sm436862wra.2005.03.16.16.51.21; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 16:51:22 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 19:53:25 -0500 From: Aperez To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20050316195325.7919854e.alfredoj69@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5cbd94c447738b05542ca4418eec87b3@mac.com> References: <22200a29d60a18f00a253e0a.20050316125612.wzyrjvf@www.dslextreme.com> <5cbd94c447738b05542ca4418eec87b3@mac.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.9.5 (GTK+ 2.4.14; i386-portbld-freebsd5.3) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: FTP server on 5.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 00:51:25 -0000 try to look into pure-ftpd. You might find your solutions with it On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 16:30:19 -0500 Charles Swiger wrote: > On Mar 16, 2005, at 3:56 PM, Joshua Lewis wrote: > > I was trying to setup an FTP server last night on my 5.3 box. I was > > using > > the handbook and was instructed to make a new user ftp. So that worked > > fine and I was able to upload to ftp's home dirrectory but wanted to > > know > > if I can safley delete the .* files in his home dirrectory. > > Yes. > > > I was also curious, if I change the permissions on /home/ftp to 755 > > then > > people will be able to read but not write to the dirrectory (do they > > need > > x permission to download a file?). But how do I make it so everyone can > > read but only certain users can write. My goal would to not use local > > accounts but pull usernames and passwords from a MySQL database. I > > would > > rather not transfer the username and password in clear text. > > If you want to permit certain users to write, the normal way of doing > so is to create standard Unix user accounts for them, and use a shell > of /usr/sbin/nologin. > > However, if you care about account security, do not use FTP. > SSH and scp are the way to go.... > > -- > -Chuck > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"