I don't have any influence ont the software the people of the Mac or the Windows box are using, is scp still an option then? So I do port 21 instead of 22. Still 2 things are bugging me: How do they find me (the linux box on the internet) and what is "decent" security in the entire context? I do not think I'll be able to set and reset the firewall all the time, closing and setting up FTP, is it possible to do this by a script after the download has finished? piet Austin Morgan wrote:
One small item out of Jim's suggestion, you should open port 21 not 22 for ftp. Also you might look at using an scp client on and ssh on the host. This is far more secure than ftp, and a lot easier to set up than some secure ftp servers.
Austin On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 01:22:05PM -0600, James Bliss wrote:
I would setup ftp on the Linux box (I use wu.ftp). You will need to setup security and define the directory which they can access. If you are running firewall or firewall2 then you will need to open port 22 on the external interface. Please make certain you put in decent security when you set this up. Also, unless needed, I would shut down the ftp port on the firewall, or the ftp daemon, after they have done what they needed to do. Again, this is for security reasons.
There is a man page for wu.ftpd.
Then they will only need an ftp client. Windows has a command line ftp client, not sure about mac. There are several freeware or shareware ftp clients availlable.
Jim
03/02/02 01:06:43 PM, Piet Roorda
wrote: so I am running suse 7.3(pro) on my box. based in city A. a computer in city B is running windows, or maybe it is a Mac, or whatever... we both have internet acces Now I want the people in B give acces to certain files on my
Linux-box in A.
Question: how should my Linux box be configured. I want to set
passwords
and stuff like that. what kind of programs should they run on there Windows-box
or Mac in B
to get the acces. thanx piet