setting up FTP for browsers

[Mike Rightmire]

Hey Gurus,

I am trying to set up FTP on an HP-UX 10.20 box so that files can be read and written via a browser (actually from within the "calendar share" feature of Outlook.)

As I understand it, I would need to set up FTP as anonymous, however I need to keep security tight on the HP-UX box. I would ideally like to set up ANY method of FTP access such that users can get to a directory by a browser address (I.E. ftp://servername.where.com/directory) however, allowing the users to access this and ONLY this directory. They would need to be able to read and write to the directory, without being even able to see directories above it, parallel to it or below it. Just this directory.

Any advice?
Thanks again!
Mike

[Joseph C. Denman · Accepted solution]

Have you thought about upgrading to 11.0? 11.0 provides much better security options for ftp.

If you wish to stay on 10.20, I would load wu-ftpd on the server. Below is a good thread.

http://my1.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0x715168c57f64d4118fee0090279cd0f9,00.html

...jcd...

[Bill Hassell]

Anonymous ftp can be made fairly secure. Change all files and directories to readonly (555 directories. 444 files). The suggestion to wu-ftpd is good. Get a ready-to-use version at the Liverpool archives:

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Networking/FTP/wu_ftpd-2.6.1/

[Mike Rightmire]

Thanks for all the advice. Going with wu-ftp seemed to be the best option and, since it was a component of HP-UX 11, I decided to switch to an 11 server.

Thanks for everything!
Mike