Dave, how about password/key authentication instead of ip filtering? What I mean is ssh. I assume you're using a unix based webserver. You can use ssh for issuing commands, scp to copy files up or down and sftp for a secure ftp session. It all uses port 22 and the ssh2 protocol. For a windows client you can use putty(terminal) or pscp(remote cp) or psftp. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ here's a windows gui for windows scp: http://winscp.vse.cz/eng/
Either alternatively, or in addition, you can setup the server to allow in only RIO's dhcp pool. This is far better than allowing 2^32 addresses. You can get the address space from RIO's tech support line. This address space would then go in your firewall packet filter ruleset (ie ipchains/iptables). Finally, there are several secure ftp packages available. Here's one I just found that is GPL'd. It is a standard ftp server, but supposedly is designed securely and used by some linux sites such as: ftp\.((redhat|suse)\.com|(debian|openbsd|gnu)\.org) http://vsftpd.beasts.org/ Cory On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 09:27:33AM -0800, Dave Wyatt wrote: > We have a web server and the public is not allowed to > access via FTp (a good thing). It is set up so the > web directories can be accessed from the internal > network and one or two ip addresses from the external > network (internet). > > The problem is one of the owners wants to be able to > make changes to the site from their home DSL service > (Rio) but their IP is different each time they log on. > Is there a way to authorize that person since they > have a dynamic IP but no real Domain Name? > > TIA, > Dave > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > Eug-LUG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug > _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
