[Discuss] FTP server guidance

[R. Langkamer]

On 8/20/07 8:51 PM, Greg Pascucci wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> This is my first question posed to the knowledgeable minds of victoria.
> 
> I am hosting a few websites and have decided that I would like to
> allow my peeps to use some client to upload their site content
> (currently i force them to ssh in which seems to cause grumbling
> amongst the masses, damn dreamweaver/frontpage users).  It would be
> preferable if they would ftp in with some username and password (I've
> been told local authentication is bad) and be thrown directly into the
> htdocs folder relevant to their website.
> 
> I've fooled around with various servers and have realized I am a
> little lost. (proftpd, vsftpd specifically)
> 
> Any help or tutorial links (as I have been unable to find good ones)
> would be welcome.
> 
> Thank you for your time.
> 
> Pascucci


	Stick with SSH. Dreamweaver supports SFTP just fine. As for the 
frontpage users, well I am sure we have words for them. ;)
	I use SSH/SFTP/SCP on my server as well and though I have FTP, I have 
SSL enabled on it.

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