Hi Will: I have done this in the past but the problem is that there is no filtering. Also, I do not have experience as a system administration but I have read that the rule of thumb is to give users the minimum possible privileges and I believe this is one of those cases.
If I were to use an account however, I will use vsftpd with a mask of read only with the default of being run through xinetd. In that manner the user only has read access to ALL ( no filtering ) files under the directory tree and still use Konqueror or Nautilus. In this manner, it will also be available to window users as well. Users of that OS do not yet enjoy of the benefits of ssh as a common tool and many are not even aware of the protocol. On the other hand, FTP is the standard transfer protocol and the later HTTP transfer protocol makes all the details of the transfer via the web browser transparent to the user. Another detail that might be of importance is that the transfers that will over 2Megs; therefore, transfers with sftp will be slower than vsftp and the encryption provided is unneeded for our purposes. But the true answer is that writing code is a lot more fun. take care, Alvaro Zuniga > From the land of the dumb comes Will Hill. > > Why not just give him an account on your box and let him look at files with > Konqueror through sftp? This might save you some trouble, not that I'd > dissuade your efforts. > > On Thursday 18 March 2004 01:21, Alvaro Zuniga wrote: > > Hi Everyone: > > A fried visited me today and we had a few drinks. He listened to some of > > my music and asked me if I could possibly display it online for him to > > download. After he left, I wrote this algorithm that is very short > > thanks to the power of recursion. I just wanted to shae it. > > > > For the computer scientists out there, yes I know about the recursion so > > show your alternative :-) > > > > enjoy, > > > > Alvaro Zuniga > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
