On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 05:54:27PM -0400, Greg London wrote: > a possible option might be to set up a secure > FTP area on my website, but I have no clue how > to do that. Is there a simple way to tell FTP > who can and cannot view a particular directory > and keep track of usernames/passwords, etc?
You can do this very nicely using a chrooted sftp-server subsystem under ssh. The result is a very secure FTP area with great user management and access control. Best of all, it works great with Windows and Mac clients since most decent FTP clients support SFTP now. Assuming your server is Linux or BSD, you can even mount common or shared directories (yep, directories) into the chrooted area so clients gain limited access to files outside their chroot. I have used this very effectively for stuff like read-only outgoing and write-only incoming directories. It does require a little bit of expertise to setup though. I have written a bunch of tools for setting up sftp jails on Linux, but never got around to packaging and releasing it. Let me know if you're interested. -Gyepi _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
