Re: [gentoo-user] ftp server software which supports a control connection?

2008-09-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 07 Sep 2008 10:45:12 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I am monitoring ftp through a wireless LAN which max at 300KB/s, running X11-forwarding is not comfortable. running a desktop session on the server and run vnc seems overkill. What's wrong with looking at the server's log file(s)

Re: [gentoo-user] ftp server software which supports a control connection?

2008-09-07 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 07 Sep 2008 10:45:12 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I am monitoring ftp through a wireless LAN which max at 300KB/s, running X11-forwarding is not comfortable. running a desktop session on the server and run vnc seems overkill. What's wrong with looking at

[gentoo-user] ftp server software which supports a control connection?

2008-09-06 Thread zhangweiwu
Hello. I am looking for an FTP server software that let me monitor the ftp activities on my notebook. Both server and the notebook runs Gentoo Linux except the server doesn't have any X11 related stuff. The reason I want to do this is because I offer my users file to download and I often need to

Re: [gentoo-user] ftp server software which supports a control connection?

2008-09-06 Thread zhangweiwu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I am looking for an FTP server software that let me monitor the ftp activities of the FTP server on my notebook (ftp server and notebook are different hosts) After homework on google it seems this feature is called remote administration. In Linux world only one

Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server

2006-06-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 06 Jun 2006 18:11:45 -0700, Ryan Tandy wrote: What's wrong with /bin/false? Then, if it's compromised, all he has is the ability to do nothing, unsuccessfully :) That's a security risk! Doing nothing unsuccessfully means doing something. You want him to do nothing successfully :)

Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server

2006-06-07 Thread Ryan Tandy
Neil Bothwick wrote: That's a security risk! Doing nothing unsuccessfully means doing something. You want him to do nothing successfully :) ...I'm not sure I follow your logic there. In any case, -ie 's/false/true' and continue? :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server

2006-06-07 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: Maybe winscp is a better idea? It behaves like most windows ftpclients but uses scp to connect to your box with all the ssh goodness for security.. http://winscp.net/eng/index.php Default configuration of SSH on Gentoo will not allow a user to leave their home

[gentoo-user] FTP Server

2006-06-06 Thread JimD
Does anyone have any suggestions/preferences to a secure FTP server for Gentoo? My 55+ year old father-in-law wants to start learning building websites. I am having him install Nvu and want to setup ftp to my web server and give him his own directory to play with. I have never had a need for

Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server

2006-06-06 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Tuesday 6 June 2006 17:38, JimD wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions/preferences to a secure FTP server for Gentoo? My 55+ year old father-in-law wants to start learning building websites. I am having him install Nvu and want to setup ftp to my web server and give him his own

RE: [gentoo-user] FTP Server

2006-06-06 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
Does anyone have any suggestions/preferences to a secure FTP server for Gentoo? My 55+ year old father-in-law wants to start learning building websites. I am having him install Nvu and want to setup ftp to my web server and give him his own directory to play with. I have never had a

Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server

2006-06-06 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
On Tuesday 06 June 2006 17:38, JimD wrote: From my perspective, I don't want an ftp server that will allow someone to get in to my gentoo box by brute forcing a username and password. I guess I can install something like denyhosts if the ftp server uses tcp wrappers. Maybe winscp is a

Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server

2006-06-06 Thread brettholcomb
Did you check out sftp? Or programs like secure shell which do ftp also. From: JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/06/06 Tue AM 11:38:06 EDT To: Gentoo-User gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] FTP Server Does anyone have any suggestions/preferences to a secure FTP server

Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server

2006-06-06 Thread JimD
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: What about sftp? You only need to have ssh running. I have ssh. However, How many of the typical winXP tools for website editing support sftp? I was just looking at Nvu and the text editing in it stinks real bad. I don't know what windows software he will always use. He

Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server

2006-06-06 Thread JimD
Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: On Tuesday 06 June 2006 17:38, JimD wrote: From my perspective, I don't want an ftp server that will allow someone to get in to my gentoo box by brute forcing a username and password. I guess I can install something like denyhosts if the ftp server uses tcp

Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server

2006-06-06 Thread JimD
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you check out sftp? Or programs like secure shell which do ftp also. I use ssh/sftp exclusively. I just have never really used any of the windows based WYIWYG-type website editors to know if they support ssh/sftp. Thanks, Jim --

Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server

2006-06-06 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
Tuesday 06 June 2006 17:48 skrev Gerhard Hoogterp: Maybe winscp is a better idea? It behaves like most windows ftpclients but uses scp to connect to your box with all the ssh goodness for security.. Actually WinSCP supports both scp and sftp. By default it uses sftp because that supports

Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server

2006-06-06 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
Tuesday 06 June 2006 18:01 skrev JimD: I don't know what windows software he will always use.  He may try FrontPage or Dreamweaver or some other tool. I would *really* recommend that he does not use Frontpage. It produces crap code... I know nothing about Dreamweaver though. -- Bo Andresen

Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server

2006-06-06 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Tuesday 6 June 2006 18:01, JimD wrote: I have ssh. However, How many of the typical winXP tools for website editing support sftp? I was just looking at Nvu and the text editing in it stinks real bad. I don't know what windows software he will always use. He may try FrontPage or

Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server

2006-06-06 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 06 June 2006 16:38, JimD wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions/preferences to a secure FTP server for Gentoo? My 55+ year old father-in-law wants to start learning building websites. I am having him install Nvu and want to setup ftp to my web server and give him his own directory to

Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server

2006-06-06 Thread Dave Moore
Does anyone have any suggestions/preferences to a secure FTP server for Gentoo? Take a look at vsftpd. Their tagline: Very Secure FTP Daemon written with speed, size and security in mind. It's in portage, and I've been using it on a Gentoo system for some time now. I don't think it's ever had

Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server / ssh and other bruteforce

2006-06-06 Thread Jason A. Booth
I don't know if my other posts made it because I think I was using the wrong e-mail to send from. I tend to prefer proftpd because you can lock specific users/ groups out and run it in a chrooted environment easily. BFD (brute force detection) works well for all services, is easy to set up and

Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server

2006-06-06 Thread michael
On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Tuesday 6 June 2006 17:38, JimD wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions/preferences to a secure FTP server for Gentoo? My 55+ year old father-in-law wants to start learning building websites. I am having him install Nvu and want to setup ftp to

RE: [gentoo-user] FTP Server

2006-06-06 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
-Original Message- From: Bo Ørsted Andresen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 12:22 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server Tuesday 06 June 2006 18:01 skrev JimD: I don't know what windows software he will always use

Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server

2006-06-06 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Tuesday 6 June 2006 18:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about sftp? You only need to have ssh running. What kind of a client do you need to talk to an sftp server? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_SFTP_clients plus, of course, the sftp binary that comes with the openssh package. --

Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server

2006-06-06 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 6/6/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tuesday 06 June 2006 18:01 skrev JimD: I don't know what windows software he will always use. He may try FrontPage or Dreamweaver or some other tool. I would *really* recommend that he does not use Frontpage. It produces crap code... I

Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server

2006-06-06 Thread Bruno Lustosa
On 6/6/06, Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sftp works great, its easy, simple and secure. You already checked a GUI, so, shouldn't be a problem. Frontpage produces crappy code full of MS stuff, hides you the basics of HTML and has limited CSS editing. Dreamweaver works great, has few

Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server

2006-06-06 Thread michael
On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Tuesday 6 June 2006 18:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about sftp? You only need to have ssh running. What kind of a client do you need to talk to an sftp server? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_SFTP_clients plus, of course, the sftp

Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server

2006-06-06 Thread Michael Crute
On 6/6/06, Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but I strongly advice your father-in-law not to use a GUI to start webmastering, use plain old text editing software to really learn what's going on. I agree with Daniel, if you learn on a GUI its far too easy to make bad websites. Start with

Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server

2006-06-06 Thread Evan Klitzke
On 6/6/06, Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree with Daniel, if you learn on a GUI its far too easy to make bad websites. Start with VI and a good book, and do yourself a favor learning CSS and XHTML since that is where web design is headed. It is probably a good idea to start with a

RE: [gentoo-user] FTP Server

2006-06-06 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
On 6/6/06, Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree with Daniel, if you learn on a GUI its far too easy to make bad websites. Start with VI and a good book, and do yourself a favor learning CSS and XHTML since that is where web design is headed. It is probably a good idea to start

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server

2006-06-06 Thread brettholcomb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/06/06 Tue PM 12:53:35 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server On Tuesday 6 June 2006 18:01, JimD wrote: I have ssh. However, How many of the typical winXP tools for website editing support sftp? I was just looking at Nvu

Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server

2006-06-06 Thread JimD
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: Tuesday 06 June 2006 18:01 skrev JimD: I don't know what windows software he will always use. He may try FrontPage or Dreamweaver or some other tool. I would *really* recommend that he does not use Frontpage. It produces crap code... I know nothing about

Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server

2006-06-06 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 6/6/06, Evan Klitzke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/6/06, Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree with Daniel, if you learn on a GUI its far too easy to make bad websites. Start with VI and a good book, and do yourself a favor learning CSS and XHTML since that is where web design is

Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server

2006-06-06 Thread Daniel
On Tuesday 06 June 2006 11:38, JimD wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions/preferences to a secure FTP server for Gentoo? You've already heard a number of good suggestions here. I will state my support for the WinSCP option with one additional suggestion: Turn off shell access for the user

Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server

2006-06-06 Thread Dave Moore
On 6/6/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. I guess the question really is: Can the ftp client that's built in to programs like dreamweaver, frontpage, nvu, etc. work with an sftp or vsftp server, or do you need a special client? I'm assuming your reference to VSFTP is based

Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server

2006-06-06 Thread Michael Crute
On 6/6/06, Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/6/06, Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree with Daniel, if you learn on a GUI its far too easy to make bad websites. Start with VI and a good book, and do yourself a favor learning CSS and XHTML since that is where web

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server

2006-06-06 Thread michael
(in the MS you don't need to know way). Once I inherited a site done in FP to maintain and I moved it to Dreamweaver - very nice. From: Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/06/06 Tue PM 12:53:35 EDT To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server On Tuesday 6 June

Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server

2006-06-06 Thread Ryan Tandy
Daniel wrote: dad:x:1001:1001::/home/dad:/usr/lib/misc/sftp-server That way, if his box gets compromised, the intruder doesn't have a shell on your machine, just the ability to delete your dad's website ;-) What's wrong with /bin/false? Then, if it's compromised, all he has is the ability

[gentoo-user] FTP-Server w/ postprocessing command

2006-05-30 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, does anyone known an FTP server, which can execute some command after upload ? thx -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/