[K12OSN] FTP access

[Les Mikesell]

On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 07:28, Steve Kossakoski wrote:
> Has anyone enabled FTP (or WebDav) access to students' home folders on
> a K12LTSP server?  Is there a how-to available?

There is a gui tool somewhere for controlling services but:

service vsftpd start
 will start it up and
chkconfig --level 345 vsftpd on
 will set it to start automatically at boot up

The default settings allow users to cd anywhere with permissions
controlled by the filesystem (the same as if they logged in). 

An alternative would be to use scp or from windows the GUI
winscp http://winscp.sourceforge.net/eng/ which will work
with the server's sshd that is running by default on
both interfaces.  The home folders are also samba-shared
so they can easily be mapped by windows or mac OSX clients.

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  Les Mikesell
    les at futuresource.com