James Bourke wrote: > After testing the machine out for a day or two I got a bit lazy and > decided to open up wu-ftp so I could use a regular ftp program to > upload files.
Personally I stopped using ftpd's a long time ago after it became evident that pretty much none of them could go more than a week without announcing a new security hole. wu-ftpd obviously being the worst offender in this. These days I just use SCP. Several windows SSH clients support SCP, but you can also get "WinSCP" which is just an SCP client. (Do a Google search for it). Since we're plugging SSH clients, I recommend PenguiNet from http://www.siliconcircus.com - it's shareware, but not exactly expensive. The lack of ftp causes a small problem for me though - I host websites for some folks, and needed to give them upload abilities. Because of that, I wrote some PHP code that allows them to do uploads through the web and (hopefully) locks them into a sort of virtual chroot(). It's not fully tested, but if anyone wants a copy, let me know. It's nice to be able to let people upload without granting them an actual shell login or using ftp.. James _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
