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On Tuesday 6 June 2006 17:38, JimD wrote: |
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> Does anyone have any suggestions/preferences to a secure FTP server |
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> for Gentoo? |
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> My 55+ year old father-in-law wants to start learning building |
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> websites. I am having him install Nvu and want to setup ftp to my web |
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> server and give him his own directory to play with. |
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> I have never had a need for ftp since I have always used ssh. |
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> However, I want to make it as easy as possible for him to learn web |
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> page design, so that is why I thought ftp would be the easiest and |
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> most supported by tools. He uses winXP and I think Nvu can publish to |
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> ftp. If he really gets into building websites, he wants to purchase |
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> something like dreamweaver. |
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> >From my perspective, I don't want an ftp server that will allow |
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> > someone |
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> to get in to my gentoo box by brute forcing a username and password. |
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> I guess I can install something like denyhosts if the ftp server uses |
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> tcp wrappers. |
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> Thanks for any guidance, |
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What about sftp? You only need to have ssh running. |
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