Subject: Confused on Groups...

From: [email-masked] (pwarner)
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 95 13:42:55 CDT

I'll try and make this brief...

I have a ftp site running that is anonymous only.  Anon. users may upload into 
/incoming that "hides" their uploads (write only, I think) as described in 
_Managing Internet Information Services_.  I now need to add some sort of access
for internal users to retrieve files from this area and to place files into an 
/outgoing area.  Ideally the /outgoing would be "hidden" files, but readable (ie
you must know the filename to get it and ls returns an empty directory).

Should I (a) create a group, (b) use autogroup (all accesses are from a single 
machine), or (c) use the site group feature?  Which is more secure?

Is the ftpgroups file the only group file that needs entries of does the 
/etc/groups also need the group defined?  How do I get an encryped password into
ftpgroups or ~ftp/etc/groups?

Is there any ftp system that provides better access control (ie file passwords) 
similar to that found in a dial-up BBS?

-- Paul Warner
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