On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Wes Harper wrote:
| The only ftp servers I can find come integrated with NCSA or CUTCP
| telnet. I haven't tried NCSA but CUTCP works well. I use the ftp
| server frequently to transfer files over my LAN. The telnet.apm
| package that comes with arachne is enough to use the ftp feature,
| but you need to comment out the passfile="nul" line from config.tel,
| which disables passwords, or alternatively, you can obtain the full
| CUTCP package and use the telpass.exe program in there which
| generates a password file with encrypted passwords for each user.
| In order to use the generated password file you would do something
| like passfile="c:\arachne\passfile" in config.tel.
|
| I you were hoping to use this to offer anonymous ftp to internet
| users, I must warn you that as far as I can tell there is not much
| security to this server. Once a user logs in they will have access
| to every drive and file on your system. The ftp servers for other
| operating systems normally restrict users to a "server root"
| directory which their client cannot go above.
Actually, I remember that you can restrict access to certain directories
with this dos telnet server, and have different access for different users
in the password file, but it might be that that needs the CUTCP version,
rather than the NCSA version. I have the docs for these somewhere, if
anyone wants them...
Regards
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Gregor J Jones mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Boston MA
