On Feb 26, 2005, at 7:58 PM, Dan Crutcher fretted: > I already have turned on FTP sharing and opened the correct port > through the firewall. I have no trouble connecting from home on my > Mac, but I'm not sure if PCs would also be able to upload/download > from this server.
There shouldn't be a problem with that. > And I wouldn't want one client to have access to the files of another > client, so I need some way to set up a username/password system for > each client. Is this best accomplished by setting up each client as a > user in the Mac's Accounts preferences? Or is there some easier/better > way? The easiest way is to give each client a separate account. > I do not have Mac OS X Server? Would that make this task significantly > easier? I don't see that Server would make much difference here unless there's a nice gui for configuring ftp access priveleges. > Should I worry about hackers getting in through my open FTP port? Of course you should. ftp is an old-fashioned unencrypted protocol that transfers passwords via cleartext. I never use it to connect to my own machines. I use scp or sftp instead because these are more secure. At the very least you should consider setting up TCP wrappers by configuring /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny and limiting access to certain accounts with /etc/ftpusers. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be February 22. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
