"Kenneth E. Lussier" wrote:
>
[snip a bunch of stuff that I'm not commenting on]
> This isn't 100% true. Sure, you can own the box and put whatever
> software on it that you want, but that doesn't mean that you can "do
> whatever we want". No matter who put's out the cash for the hardware,
> there are still going to be restrictions as to what the box can be used
> for. Some of the things that you mention above are extreamly intensive
> on resources other than just the box itself (IRC and LDAP can tax a
> network), and some of them may violate basic network security policies
> (FTP). These things would require changes to firewalls and possably
> network infrastructure.
>
I know for the tuxbiz.org, I was hoping to make the RPMs that were
built available via anonymous FTP (passive mode), as demo businesses /
starting points. Do we need a second box configured just for FTP? I
thought we could set up anon FTP, passive, in a chroot jail on the
machine.
jeff smith
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