FTP "securing"
Randy Edwards
redwards at golgotha.net
Thu Oct 9 14:44:15 EDT 2003
> The real issue you're facing is that you're authenticating more then one
> party (i.e., more then one customer) using the same username/password (to
> the FTP server).
Exactly. What about giving each customer with a support contract a
unique FTP username/password?
Then for each customer, make a symbolic link to the patch subdirectory
so everyone can get their patches. (This can easily be done with etc/skel
or a script, the only real work is to replicate it across the 7 FTP servers.)
When a support contact then terminates, kill the expiring user's
account, and then they'd get nothing -- yet everyone else with a valid
contract keeps the same username and access privileges.
Regards,
.
Randy
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