Hi All, I got talked into hosting a website for my son's friend. Now I need to give him ftp access so he can maintain his pages. There are lots of ftp servers out there I don't have any experience in this area. My two primary criteria are ease of configuration and security. Suggestions? (Don't say "Don't do it!". While this may be good advice, I already promised I would.) Jeff
Op zondag 13 februari 2005 20:46, schreef Jeffrey Laramie:
I got talked into hosting a website for my son's friend. Now I need to give him ftp access so he can maintain his pages. There are lots of ftp servers out there I don't have any experience in this area. My two primary criteria are ease of configuration and security. Suggestions? (Don't say "Don't do it!". While this may be good advice, I already promised I would.)
Have a look at ssh and scp. It's the better scp I would say. In case your son's friend uses that other OS, he can use putty and filezilla to connect to your suse box. -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless
Jeffrey Laramie wrote:
Hi All,
I got talked into hosting a website for my son's friend. Now I need to give him ftp access so he can maintain his pages. There are lots of ftp servers out there I don't have any experience in this area. My two primary criteria are ease of configuration and security. Suggestions?
vsftpd - which I believe is also the default that SuSE comes with. /Per Jessen, Zürich
Jeffrey Laramie wrote:
Hi All,
I got talked into hosting a website for my son's friend. Now I need to give him ftp access so he can maintain his pages. There are lots of ftp servers out there I don't have any experience in this area. My two primary criteria are ease of configuration and security. Suggestions? (Don't say "Don't do it!". While this may be good advice, I already promised I would.)
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vsftpd (for very secure ftpd) and pureftpd are both good. I think vsftpd is used quite a lot in anger by some really big sites. It's pretty straightforward to set up and works from one well-commented configuration file. Pureftpd has unusually fulsome and helpful user docs. Both support "virtual users", i.e. users who don't have a full login on the system and therefore access to a shell. I think vsftpd has a webmin module and at one stage pureftpd had an admin module for the kde control centre; perhaps it still does. As someone mentioned, an alternative is scp over ssh. However, this would mean using a full system login, and I believe (perhaps wrongly) that there is no resume with scp so if a download is interrupted you'll have to start again. Vsftpd can also support fully encrypted ssl connections. I think pureftpd can only support user/pass and command encryption. :) Fish
Mark Crean wrote:
and I believe (perhaps wrongly) that there is no resume with scp so if a download is interrupted you'll have to start again.
No, that is correct.
Vsftpd can also support fully encrypted ssl connections.
Ah, I didn't know that. Well, what else do you need - vsftpd is the answer. Other possible alternatives include rsync and webDAV. But the OP really just asked about FTP. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- http://www.spamchek.ch/freetrial - jetzt für 30 Tage ausprobieren - kostenlos und unverbindlich!
On Monday 14 February 2005 03:49, Per Jessen wrote:
Mark Crean wrote:
and I believe (perhaps wrongly) that there is no resume with scp so if a download is interrupted you'll have to start again.
No, that is correct.
Vsftpd can also support fully encrypted ssl connections.
Ah, I didn't know that. Well, what else do you need - vsftpd is the answer.
Other possible alternatives include rsync and webDAV. But the OP really just asked about FTP.
Hmmm, I mentioned ftp since that seems to be the easiest for windoze clients. I use rsync internally so this option intrigues me. Is there a windoze client for rsync you could recommend? Jeff
Jeff, On Monday 14 February 2005 06:10, Jeffrey Laramie wrote:
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Hmmm, I mentioned ftp since that seems to be the easiest for windoze clients. I use rsync internally so this option intrigues me. Is there a windoze client for rsync you could recommend?
It's available under Cygwin (http://cygwin.com/). I don't know if there's a GUI available.
Jeff
Randall Schulz
On Monday 14 February 2005 10:37, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Jeff,
On Monday 14 February 2005 06:10, Jeffrey Laramie wrote:
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Hmmm, I mentioned ftp since that seems to be the easiest for windoze clients. I use rsync internally so this option intrigues me. Is there a windoze client for rsync you could recommend?
It's available under Cygwin (http://cygwin.com/). I don't know if there's a GUI available.
Thanks Randall
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 02:46:29PM -0500, Jeffrey Laramie wrote:
Hi All,
I got talked into hosting a website for my son's friend. Now I need to give him ftp access so he can maintain his pages. There are lots of ftp servers out there I don't have any experience in this area. My two primary criteria are ease of configuration and security. Suggestions? (Don't say "Don't do it!". While this may be good advice, I already promised I would.)
I use PUREFTPD and have had no problems with it. I really like it. I have mine set up so that you need to have a local account to log in with before you can access it because I don't want annonymous.
Jeff
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On Sunday 13 February 2005 14:46, Jeffrey Laramie wrote:
Hi All,
I got talked into hosting a website for my son's friend. Now I need to give him ftp access so he can maintain his pages. There are lots of ftp servers out there I don't have any experience in this area. My two primary criteria are ease of configuration and security. Suggestions? (Don't say "Don't do it!". While this may be good advice, I already promised I would.)
Thanks for all the responses. I like the idea of virtual users. I've always been queasy about creating user accounts on a public server. Jeff
On Sunday 13 February 2005 2:46 pm, Jeffrey Laramie wrote:
Hi All,
I got talked into hosting a website for my son's friend. Now I need to give him ftp access so he can maintain his pages. There are lots of ftp servers out there I don't have any experience in this area. My two primary criteria are ease of configuration and security. Suggestions? (Don't say "Don't do it!". While this may be good advice, I already promised I would.) Additionally, the "other os" you can download programs like winssh an Putty (this is a telnet/ssh program).
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Jerry Feldman
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