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A simple way to create basic FTP shares and users
Authored by: BMarsh on Jun 23, '04 10:41:46AM

An easier way, but requires extra software (it's freeware!)
is PureFtpd Manager

almost no setup, simple interface, fairly straightforward UI.
It makes ftp only users, and allows existing full users of your machine to access their home directories.

there can be some issues with permissions if you want to put things into a users directory, since the default is to only give read access to anyone else.

it isn't sftp, but Pureftp is supposed to be one of the more secure ftpd's out there from what information I've been able to gather.

There should be links on both versiontracker and macupdate



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A simple way to create basic FTP shares and users
Authored by: mcsattu on Sep 07, '04 07:12:57PM

I recently tried to use PureFTPd, and had serious problems with it -- any time I tried to manage users, I'd have no more than 15 seconds before it quit the entire program. Everything else worked, and if I was able to finish whatever I needed to do quickly, log ins & everything worked perfectly... but it was too painful for me to continue using it.

Is there any other freeware gui ftp server software available?

(Note: using 10.3.5 on an 867 Quicksilver G4, haven't had any similar problems before)



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