LinuxQuestions.org - Pointers and thoughts on sftp with Fedora Core

Hi all,

I want to setup a sftp-solution for a few business aquaintances of mine.

Currently I'm running the plain-vanilla IIS-FTP-version off of a win2k3-server, where all of the users have their own login account (no anonymous allowed!) but are able to up/download files and docs from a shared folder that everybody can see and browse and of course upload to.

The above setup has worked fine for years, but now I'm feeling it's time to make it more tight with secure transfers.

I'd like to keep the setup as in windows, with one shared folder (or two really; incoming and pub) where they can upload and download stuff from.

After having spoken to a linux-friend at work, he suggested instead to have all the users have their own personal folders and use symbolic links and so on, so as not to mess any config-files in each user's folder. My initial thought was that this will most likely confuse them having a fodler each (we're speaking upper-level managers that are used to have other ppl doing stuff for them - adding intricate ways of traversing folder and symbolic links on a CLI is an absolute no-no. 8-) They will have access to the GUI or anything and should not be able to browse around on the system in general, just the pub and incoming-folders.

I'm thinking that since all of them will use WinSCP or some such from windows, all they should see when they login is the pub and incoming folder.

I already have a web-server setup on FC5, so adding an ftp-server to the same machine should't be too much of a problem I imagine.

So basically, what do *you* guys recommend? Is the solution I'm thinking of, at all possible? And how would I do this?

Any and all help and hints are welcome! TIA.