From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 13 04:00:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 8E87316A404 for ; Sat, 13 May 2006 04:00:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nick@nickwithers.com) Received: from mail.nickwithers.com (mail.manrags.com [203.219.206.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2EDB43D45 for ; Sat, 13 May 2006 04:00:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nick@nickwithers.com) Received: from localhost (shmick.shmon.net [10.0.0.252]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.nickwithers.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7F033A81C; Sat, 13 May 2006 14:00:18 +1000 (EST) Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 14:00:18 +1000 From: Nick Withers To: Leo Lapousterle Message-Id: <20060513140018.d8ddb32f.nick@nickwithers.com> In-Reply-To: <80D331DDB6F3A18968DF6AEA@[192.168.1.97]> References: <80D331DDB6F3A18968DF6AEA@[192.168.1.97]> Organization: nickwithers.com X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.17; i386-portbld-freebsd6.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-nickwithers-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-nickwithers-MailScanner-From: nick@nickwithers.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: An FTP alternative ? 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: Sat, 13 May 2006 04:00:30 -0000 On Sat, 13 May 2006 04:57:25 +0200 Leo Lapousterle wrote: > Hello :) >=20 > I'm fed up with FTP servers : FTP is great, but I need some admin stuff > like privileges (one user can upload but not download, for example) > unavailable for FTP... at least for those I've tested. >=20 > Is there an alternative way for FTP, allowing individual privileges? > I found hxd (hotline protocol, I used it 7 years ago!), it's very powerful > but quite discontinued... >=20 > Anybody has another idea? :) > Thanks! Have you looked at SFTP? It's a "subsystem" that operates over an SSH connection. Whilst it requires that a user be able to login over SSH to the server, you can use filesystem permissions (and indeed other system facilities) to enforce things like being able to upload / download on a fairly granular (e.g.: directory-level) basis. > --=20 > L=E9o Hope this helps! --=20 Nick Withers email: nick@nickwithers.com Web: http://www.nickwithers.com Mobile: +61 414 397 446