Sunday, 20 July 2014

FTP

One of the biggest challenges for designing and implementing the KSA computer network was to choose a secure and reliable way to share and manage KSA’s documents. One option was to use a web server for upload and download documents and the other one was to use a proper FTP server [5] [6]. There are pros and cons of using either option. For example, web server is easy to implement but it is not as fast as FTP. Using the webserver for sharing document does not let us know how much data each user is writing where as with FTP users could be limited by the number of Mega Bytes or Giga Bytes of a shared hard drive on a server

installing VSFTPD

apt-get install vsftpd
*edit /etc/vsftpd.cof as below :

2 comments:

  1. FTP secure? Since when? look at SFTP, or FTPS. Why different fonts and numbers leading to no referencing system?

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  2. vsftpd stands for Very Secure File Transfer Protocol Daemon. It support Transport Layer Security (TLS) and the followings:
    Per-source-IP configurability
    Per-source-IP limits
    with vsftpd we can apply specific configuration to a specific user or we can limit access to specific user. I haven't implemented any of these functionalities, however, I am going to enable TLS (using openssl) for it to make a secure connection between server and clients.

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