Re: [cobalt-users] Restricting FTP Access

["Rob Evans" <robe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Grant Stern wrote:
>> We have a Qube2 that is used as an FTP server.  It requires authentication
>> before anyone is allowed access.  So, the identity of the person is known and
>> they are connected to their own directory.  However, there is a master user
>> (not "admin") who needs to share files with the individuals, who should
>> remain ignorant of each other.
>>
>> Is there a way of automatically directing each individual to another
>> directory?
>> I have set up a group for each individual, consisting of that person and the
>> master user, and I'd like to direct an individual immediately to the
>> "../individual-group/private" directory.  And I'd like to keep them there, if
>> possible, so they can't navigate up the tree.
>
> I know this might to sound like a funny solution, but why not set up an
> anonymous ftp serve for files that require mass distribution.  All of your
> users will be ignorant of each other.  There is a lovely dropbox to allow
> you to accept files from your users, without anyone but your admin having
> access.  Best of all as my network engineer friends love to point out, its
> the only secure ftp out there.
> gs

I obviously didn't make my requirements quite clear.  I don't want mass
distribution.  Each individual has their own files, either put there by them for
the master user to pick up or put there by the master user for the individual to
pick up.  And again, the master user is not the admin for the server - it is an
in-house project servicing a number of clients.
Regards, Rob E.