[K12OSN] Anyone provide ftp access to students?

[William Fragakis]

I'm interested in this as well as we are about to at least give local 
access the same way to files.

btw, Robert, I set up a launcher with the command
konqueror sftp://192.168.address.offileserver

and pushed it to the desktops. this gives them an easy interface where 
they just have to enter their username and password to log in.
we use generic logins in the classrooms or it'd drive everyone nuts 
logging off and on - we are in a k-5 environment.

this is a lot easier than using the nautilus "connect to server" 
because it correctly prompts for a secure log in vs. anonymous ie 
avoiding the pull down menu. That wouldn't be hard to do with older 
kids but I don't want to have to explain that to a 9 yr old.

regards,
William
On Mar 2, 2006, at 12:00 PM, k12osn-request at redhat.com wrote:

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> Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 23:52:26 -0800
> From: "Robert Arkiletian" <robark at gmail.com>
> Subject: [K12OSN] Anyone provide ftp access to students?
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> Is anyone running vsftpd for students to access their files from their
> homes (ie. residences) ?
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> Wondering how much of a security risk this is?
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> Robert Arkiletian
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