[Novices] public ftp access

[Steve Petersen]

Thanks for your response!

> I suppose the simplest way is to create an account for her on your box.
> 
> Security is a concern since FTP sends passwords unencrypted, and there
> is the issue of getting the password to her (unencrypted email?)
> If you do that, it's best to lock the user in her home directory, and to
> NOT allow shell access.

Hmn... how do I not allow shell access?  I'm a novice, remember! 
(Though I've been using linux for about five years... I use it for 
ideological, not techno-capable reasons.  Though of course I've learned 
*some* along the way.)

> How you do that depends on the FTP server you're running.  You didn't
> mention that.

I doubt I'm running any FTP server.  That's kind of the question, I 
guess.  It's just FC3 out of the box, so to speak.  But I don't know 
anything about setting up ftp servers and granting user access... I 
played a little with directions for installing vsftpd, but couldn't get 
it to work either (except locally, but that's no good).

> You can do regular accounts like:
> 
>   ftp://userid@host.domain.com/
> 
> where it'll popup a box asking for the password.

Oh okay good!  I don't think I want anonymous ftp enabled.

Thanks again for your help,
Steve