Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:12:17 -0500 From: David J Brooks <daeg@houston.rr.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Derrill Guilbert <derrill@gmail.com> Subject: Re: looking for something like an embedded ftp server Message-ID: <200704111312.18132.daeg@houston.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <b5c1e1790704111026p33d6ee93v7154f5abbbc74b14@mail.gmail.com> References: <b5c1e1790704111026p33d6ee93v7154f5abbbc74b14@mail.gmail.com>
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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 David -- bureaucracy, n: A method for transforming energy into solid waste.
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