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to: Geo.
from: Richard B.
date: 2004-07-07 10:14:28
subject: Re: FTP server

From: Richard B. 

On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 09:57:03 -0400, "Geo."  wrote:

>No, I use leechftp for my client, but got users using everything on the planet
>and seems to work fine. We use wftpd for all the homepage sites and ftp based
>websites.

Cool.

>>  Any thoughts on MS FTP?
>
>you mean besides CALs?

Ouch...well that would put it out of the running without further adieu.

>Last time I looked in order to setup a userid/password
>you had to add the user to the NT user database, this gives far more access to
>the machine than simply ftp access. I don't like that, I prefer an ftp server
>that uses it's own user database so that access is limited to ftp only without
>any additional measures being required to secure the user's access level.

Well that does settles it then!

Heck if we decide not to host it locally (my own preference) maybe I'll
check out NLS if you do that sort of thing. 

- Richard

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