FTP Servers And Security

[Sean McMahon]

Maybe this is off topic here but can't you just set the permissions on the
uploadable directories and put stuff you don't want others to see elsewhere?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, November 28, 2003 8:58 AM
Subject: Re: FTP Servers And Security


> I'm using proftpd, doing the same thing (letting people upload
> files). Proftpd has the means to limit which directories a user can or
> can't see, and which can be read only, or read and write.
>
> Greg
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 06:15:55AM -0500, Rejean Proulx wrote:
> > I have an account that I let users use to upload files on my system.  I
am
> > using ftpd which came with Debian.  Unfortunately, it lets people look
at
> > all directories on my system.  How do I fix that?  Can ftpd fix this?
> > Should I be using a different ftp server?
> >
> >  Rejean Proulx
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