FTP is really insecure. All passwords are sent in clear text, so it's probably a good thing that you cannot log in as root. The way my server is setup is that I only allow anonymous access to /var/ftp (this was the default, I'm not sure how to change it). vsftpd puts anonymous users into a chroot jail. I then created an ftpadmin account and gave in write access to /var/ftp. In order to upload to the site, a user will have to use scp, which transmits passwords securely. It works quite well, since winscp is a nice gui for users on the Windows platform.
On Tue, 2006-18-04 at 19:12 -0600, Mitchell Brown wrote: > Awesome dude. Thanks > After reading and following the tutorial I was [ ] that close! > Problems: > > * How the heck do you > * Setup different users > * With different permissions > * And different folders > * Everytime I tried to connect to it with "root" and my password > it says > * "OOPS: caps" or something like that > * Isn't there a graphical interface somewhere? At all? > I'd appreciate any help from anyone :D > Thanks > > On 4/18/06, Jesse Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Check out: http://www.vsftpd.org/ > > Jesse > > On Tue, 2006-18-04 at 18:16 -0600, Mitchell Brown wrote: > > Hi > > > > Can someone tell me like, a quick 3 step guide to setting up > an FTP > > server under Linux? > > I just want to be able to set it up and have it run. I can > do the > > configuring through the graphical FileZilla Server interface > on my > > Windows box. > > > > Thank you, > > MB > > _______________________________________________ > > clug-talk mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
