FTP server on 5.3

[Aperez]

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 at 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
> 
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