Re: WebDNA and FTP

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2003


It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = Michael - We run our ProFTPD as user 'www' for security .. We also authenticate against a MySQL database which makes our setup different to you. When I get stuck with ProFTPD I always use this site as a reference (the guy that runs it is the main developer) http://www.castaglia.org/proftpd/ HTH Alain On Friday, 22 August 2003, at 8:42 PM, Michael Davis wrote: > This is a bit off topic, but I'm guessing someone on this list has > conquered this problem... > > I have a customer hosted on Apache1.3/WebDNA4.5 that wants an FTP > directory set up. I can force Apache to process tpl files in a > directory as text/html, bypassing the WebDNA Engine. That solves the > security issue regarding uploading of malicious WebDNA code. But I > have had no luck working with ProFTPD in allowing a non-system user to > authenticate from a users (htpasswd) file and have read/write access > to a directory that is also read/written to by WebDNA as www:www. I > don't think this can be solved using WebDNA. I think it's completely > a matter of the proper directives in the proftpd.conf file. Do any of > you WebDNA'ers use ProFTP in this way, and if so, would you care to > share your conf directives? Thanks, and we should probably take this > off-list unless there are others who chime in with related curiosity. > > Mike > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > > Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ > > -- Alain Russell Blackpepper Interactive Ltd p. 09 520 6280 | m. 021 446 169 http://www.blackpepper.co.nz ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: WebDNA and FTP ( Alain Russell 2003)
  2. Re: WebDNA and FTP ( "Nitai @ ComputerOil" 2003)
  3. Re: WebDNA and FTP ( Michael Davis 2003)
  4. Re: WebDNA and FTP ( "Nitai @ ComputerOil" 2003)
  5. WebDNA and FTP ( Michael Davis 2003)
Michael - We run our ProFTPD as user 'www' for security .. We also authenticate against a MySQL database which makes our setup different to you. When I get stuck with ProFTPD I always use this site as a reference (the guy that runs it is the main developer) http://www.castaglia.org/proftpd/ HTH Alain On Friday, 22 August 2003, at 8:42 PM, Michael Davis wrote: > This is a bit off topic, but I'm guessing someone on this list has > conquered this problem... > > I have a customer hosted on Apache1.3/WebDNA4.5 that wants an FTP > directory set up. I can force Apache to process tpl files in a > directory as text/html, bypassing the WebDNA Engine. That solves the > security issue regarding uploading of malicious WebDNA code. But I > have had no luck working with ProFTPD in allowing a non-system user to > authenticate from a users (htpasswd) file and have read/write access > to a directory that is also read/written to by WebDNA as www:www. I > don't think this can be solved using WebDNA. I think it's completely > a matter of the proper directives in the proftpd.conf file. Do any of > you WebDNA'ers use ProFTP in this way, and if so, would you care to > share your conf directives? Thanks, and we should probably take this > off-list unless there are others who chime in with related curiosity. > > Mike > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > > Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ > > -- Alain Russell Blackpepper Interactive Ltd p. 09 520 6280 | m. 021 446 169 http://www.blackpepper.co.nz ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Alain Russell

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