slackware questions

[Stryker]

If windows came with a client I would force them to use it, but i do not want to force people to use something. ftp is pretty common, i will put a warning on the welcome for ftp about it's insecurity. but there are lots of people that are on restricted machines and cannot add programs or anything. and there are those people who just don't know how. I'm not so sure how to go about setting it up though, i want something more secure available.

and it won't be public until i get dsl back, it's sitting behind a gateway on a dialup conncetion right now.

[voidmain]

If all you want to expose is ftp you can just forward the ftp ports from that ftp machine to your gateway by adding the appropriate forwarding rules to your gateway (assuming your gateway is Linux running ipchains or iptables or any other standard firewall appliance).

[ January 25, 2003: Message edited by: void main ]

[voidmain]

Heh heh, I'm a loser if I search for crap like this, but I used the term "muffler bearings" just last month in a similar situation in a thread you had posted in (but it wasn't directed to you):

http://forum.fuckmicrosoft.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=5&t=001369&p=2

[ January 25, 2003: Message edited by: void main ]

[beltorak0]

minor point:
use adduser, not useradd, and it will create the directory for you.  actually it cp's /etc/skel to /home/newuser.

[ January 26, 2003: Message edited by: beltorak ]

[beltorak0]

i used to have proftp set up on my box; here's what i use:

I have it running standalone (not inetd).
I added the users i want to allow to connect to the ftp service to the file "/etc/ftphosts": "allow username".
my firewall is set up to allow RELATED traffick on the ftp-data port (20; technically ftp_control - 1).
my firewall is also set up to accept new connections to the ftp_control port (21).

I wish i could help more, but i gave up running ftpd after i realised that i wasn't going to be able to keep up with the security implications....
and i haven't slept since last night (graveyard shift sux sometimes).

I do remember that the problem of not being able to login being puzzling, i think the /etc/ftphosts fixed it tho...

[scorchen]

PuTTy == Free SSH client
FileZilla == Free Sftp/ftp client

I've noticed that slackware on my machine also runs much faster than redhat.
I assume that this has to do with the fact that slackware is bare-bone, Runs a vanilla kernel, and not nearly as many services/scripts run default.<br> Also.. with slackware I generally compile everything from source, which optimizes it for my specific CPUs

Another thing you can do is download and install the  Preempt kernel patch.

[ January 27, 2003: Message edited by: Scorchen ]Preempt Kernel Patch

[ January 27, 2003: Message edited by: Scorchen ]