Re: [gentoo-server] which ftp-server

[Andrea Ferraris]

Hi,

> Hmm, giving it a quick shot in Mozilla, it doesn't appear to... but I
> might be doing something wrong. I never really think about using
> browsers to access ftp. I just use the command line or an app like
> filezilla. However, I haven't had need of an ftp server that provides
> anonymous web-based access (like for code downloads)... something which
> may change soon enough... so, I'll be remembering pureftp and proftp...
> Is one easier to setup and maintain than the other?

I don't think that sftp could allow access via a web browser and I
think that a web browser can access also non anonymously to an
ftp site managed by proftpd or pure-ftpd and also by ssl. I'm not
100% sure, because I don't have direct and recent experience about 
that, but I think that could be like that.

I don't know if one is easier to setup and maintain than the other,
but maybe, if I don't remember bad, there was a webmin module
for proftpd (you could verify on the webmin site). I don't know if
there are a similar module for pure-ftp, but I saw that at the home
page of pure-ftp there are a program to manage the software.
If you don't receive more and more convincing replies, I advice 
you to go to the sites of the two software to see how is the 
documentation and if there are some software to setup and maintain 
the two ones.

For sure a program that you can use to manage both, is vi ;-)

Andrea