FTP service in fedora 10?

Hey there,

I would like to share some of my files with family and close friends. I
am familiar with FTP servers for Windows such as Serv-U and WarFTPd, but
am not too familiar with how to setup an FTP service in UNIX or Linux.
What is currently the most secure and easy to administer FTP daemon for
*nix?

Thanks if anyone can help!

asdasdas wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> I would like to share some of my files with family and close friends. I
> am familiar with FTP servers for Windows such as Serv-U and WarFTPd, but
> am not too familiar with how to setup an FTP service in UNIX or Linux.
> What is currently the most secure and easy to administer FTP daemon for
> *nix?
>
> Thanks if anyone can help!
Well, an open socket to an FTP server is a bit of a money pot for the
malicious.

Dunno what is the latest, but WUftpd used to be a decent sort of package.

Enabling the standard ftp daemon under inetd is easy enough: It's
managing the security issues that is a problem, especially if your
intended accessors are not on fixed IP addresses.

Andrew Gideon wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 01:33:55 -0800, asdasdas wrote:
>
>> Hey there,
>>
>> I would like to share some of my files with family and close friends.
>> I am familiar with FTP servers for Windows such as Serv-U and
>> WarFTPd, b
>
> Wouldn't it make more sense to use a web server for this? FTP can be
> problematic with some firewalls because of the details of the
> protocols
> (passive vs. active). HTTP has none of that nonsense.
>
> More, FTP doesn't encrypt. HTTP offers that as an option.
>
> - Andrew

A web server could be a poor option if the files are very large, it's
not as efficient as FTP, which is designed for it specifically.
Firewalls aren't really a problem is configured properly and if needed,
as you've stated, one could use pasv mode or not. Finally, FTP can use
encryption.

Besides, often, encryption isn't a concern unless the data is sensitive
and you have any concern that a malicious person can somehow get
privileged access on the system or network at a level to be able to
grab that data, in which case all bets are off anyway since they
control the system or network at a root level (not that I don't
encourage people to protect all data with SSL/TLS, etc., but for FTP of
non vital data, it's probably not a concern that should worry most
people).
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asdasdas wrote:
> I would like to share some of my files with family and close friends. I
> am familiar with FTP servers for Windows such as Serv-U and WarFTPd, but
> am not too familiar with how to setup an FTP service in UNIX or Linux.
> What is currently the most secure and easy to administer FTP daemon for
> *nix?

vsftpd packages are distributed with all versions of Fedora.
vsftpd runs independently of (i.e., without) xinetd.

On 2009-02-19, asdasdas <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> I would like to share some of my files with family and close friends. I
> am familiar with FTP servers for Windows such as Serv-U and WarFTPd, but
> am not too familiar with how to setup an FTP service in UNIX or Linux.
> What is currently the most secure and easy to administer FTP daemon for
> *nix?

ftp is not especially secure, and not only just because it transmits
usernames and passwords as plain text. I'd set up ssh instead and use
scp or sftp to transfer files. Windows users can use "WinScp" (available
here: http://winscp.sourceforge.net), with a pointy-clicky "Norton
Commander" type gui interface.

--

John ((E-Mail Removed))

On Feb 20, 4:14*am, John Thompson <j...@vector.os2.dhs.org> wrote:
> On 2009-02-19, asdasdas <dsfs...@sdfsdf.com> wrote:
>
> > I would like to share some of my files with family and close friends. *I
> > am familiar with FTP servers for Windows such as Serv-U and WarFTPd, but
> > am not too familiar with how to setup an FTP service in UNIX or Linux.
> > What is currently the most secure and easy to administer FTP daemon for
> > *nix?
>
> ftp is not especially secure, and not only just because it transmits
> usernames and passwords as plain text. I'd set up ssh instead and use
> scp or sftp to transfer files. Windows users can use "WinScp" (available
> here:http://winscp.sourceforge.net), with a pointy-clicky "Norton
> Commander" type gui interface.
>
> --
>
> John (j...@os2.dhs.org)

-Yes, if you use sftp, It's more secure and you will not have to
install new applications for FTP, sftp installed by default on most
Linux distributions, If you want your users to only sftp to your
servers and not ssh so they can'r have a complete shell which enables
them to type extra commands, You can strict them to use only sftp to
move data and not ssh, Change the default shell in the /etc/passwd for
that user like this, suppose the passwd file entry like this,
hanys:x:538:543::/home/hanys:/bin/bash change /bin/bash to
hanys:x:538:543::/home/hanys:/usr/bin/sftp
type which sftp to know where does your distribution put sftp binary.
And you may chroot them also easily with some extra work, search about
chroot jail and ssh or sftp,
Ask if you need help to make specific permissions to make for example
shared directories.
regards,