Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 19:53:25 -0500 From: Aperez <alfredoj69@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FTP server on 5.3 Message-ID: <20050316195325.7919854e.alfredoj69@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5cbd94c447738b05542ca4418eec87b3@mac.com> References: <22200a29d60a18f00a253e0a.20050316125612.wzyrjvf@www.dslextreme.com> <5cbd94c447738b05542ca4418eec87b3@mac.com>
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try to look into pure-ftpd. You might find your solutions with it On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 16:30:19 -0500 Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> 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"
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