Anonymous FTP server This article was written by Kim Scarborough <somebody@unknown.nu>. Reviewers include Nik Clayton, Crist J. Clark, and Yonatan Bokovza. Although much of the purpose of anonymous FTP has been rendered obsolete by HTTP, it still has one advantage: allowing anonymous uploads. [Ed. note: see also upload files via http.] Often, people want to […]
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ssh – authorized keys and chmod Regular readers (aren’t you all?) will remember the article (How to copy files around without anyone seeing them) where I used scp to copy files from one box to another. The solution involved the use of ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. This article shows how changing the permission on a directory can break
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How to copy files around without anyone seeing them In a previous article, I showed you how to backup your mySQL database from one box to another. In this example I used ftp. I now know of a more secure method which is suitable for use across untrusted networks, particularly the internet. See also
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Creating a chroot ftpd This article shows how to create a chroot’d ftpd which has a self-contained ls command. Background The original article which referenced chroot and ftpd is installing an alternative ftp daemon – proftpd. In that article you will read about a problem I was having with ftpd which was associated with chroot.
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installing an alternative ftp daemon – proftpd I decided to install another ftp server. Mainly because I was having a small problem with the default ftp server which I didn’t want to spend the time fixing. The problem was with chroot. If I placed a user in /etc/ftpchroot, they were unable to use the
proftpd and FreeBSD This article describes how I got proftpd to work with FreeBSD 3-3 STABLE. Background I recently upgraded a box from 3.3-RELEASE to 3.3-STABLE. In the process, I encountered problems with proftpd. Specifically, anonymous login worked, but regular users could not log in. The error message was: Dec 6 23:00:15 synergy proftpd[346]:
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upload files via http This article talks about how I installed a script which allows you to upload files to a web server via http. NOTE: This article contains references to terminalp.com which is no longer registered. Why bother with http? Why would anyone bother with http when there is a perfectly good ftp? I
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installing an alternative ftp daemon – proftpd I decided to install another ftp server. Mainly because I was having a small problem with the default ftp server which I didn’t want to spend the time fixing. The problem was with chroot. If I placed a user in /etc/ftpchroot, they were unable to use the
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virtual ftp servers – proftpd After I installed proftpd, I decided to play around with virtual ftp servers. home page http://www.proftpd.org/ mailing list archives http://www.proftpd.org/proftpd-l-archive/ FAQ http://hamster.wibble.org/proftpd/ If you want to know more about virtual machines, see http://cybernut.com/guides/virtual.html Virtual server restrictions The first warning is that each virtual server must have a different IP address
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Installing an ftp server – getting FreeBSD into an NT/Linux house. * This article isn’t finished yet. This article talks about how I installed an ftp server at a site. They didn’t have an ftp server and this was the first FreeBSD box at their site. Previously, then ran only Linux (RedHat I think) and
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