From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 16 15:39:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA07352 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 15:39:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from implode.root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA07308 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 15:39:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA01942; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 15:39:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199807162239.PAA01942@implode.root.com> To: "Steve Babb" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD as an FTP server... In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 16 Jul 1998 23:02:45 BST." <000201bdb105$c973bc40$062893c3@kuh> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 15:39:01 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Sorry to bother you all, but could someone answer a simple question for me. >At the moment we have FreeBSD set up as an anonymous FTP server, and now >would like the ability to have user FTP accounts. Basically speaking we >would like to login to the ftp server as say, ftpuser1, and then be able to >FTP files to a pre-defined directory that only ftpuser1 can see, not all >anonymous users. Is this possible as reading through the docs I see no >mention of using FreeBSD as anything other than an anon server. > >We also have now installed apache and need to FTP the web pages to it from >our windows web authoring program. This again requires us to FTP to another >directory than our anon one. > >Finally how can you stop people uploading to the server, as at the moment >you can upload and download from the anon server. > >Sorry if these questions are answered elsewere. If so a point in the right >direction would be great! This functionality is provided by wu-ftpd which is in the ports tree. Specifically, you want to look at the "guest groups" support. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message