Personally I would force them to use a more secure protocol, like sftp or TLS/SSL ftp. There are plenty of great GUI apps that do sftp and TLS/SSL ftp and supports dragging-and-dropping. I always hate the reason "because that is what they know". Have them learn something new. It's not rocket science. Fire up dsniff and show them how insecure regular ftp is. Then show them how easy some of the other GUI apps are. And as far as distros go, it doesn't matter, as long as you keep it up to date. On Wed, 12 May 2004, Johnny Fulcrum wrote: > > Hi all- > > A buddy of mine is throwing me a "small potato" and giving me 1/2 the > cut. The job is setting up a small ftp server for a client. > > The requirements are (seemingly) next to nothing: > > A site where clients of the client can drop off files (under 20 Meg a day) > and at the end of the day, generate a report of what got tranferred and > move the transferred files off to a backup machine. > > I immediately thought of SSH and sftp, gave warnings of the insecurities > of ftp etc - but was told that the end users will not touch the command > line and will be using IE to conenct and drag -n- drop files to the ftp > server. OOOkkkayyy... > > > Ok, so I thought of using vsftp and making a blind, anonymous "drop off" > ftp server... Connect as anonymous, drop files in an "incoming" location > and that's it. > > The box will most likely be a walmart special x86 (uptime is not a concern > from what he tells me a.k.a rebuild box if it goes south.). I have to > choose a linux distro for this. I use gentoo day-to-day, so I thought of > using that and vsftp (I also use this on my personal box). > > So - Gentoo, vsftpd, sshd for my remote access, on an el cheapo box, set > customer expections up front, clue bat, what else am I going to need? > > Any advice, warnings, etc - This will be my first time doing something > like this... :\ > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list