I am running a server with Mandrake 9.2 and I want to set up and ftp server I am rather new to server admin and I am trying to decide witch one is easier to setup. Any Ideas??
I have a smoothwall machine setup between my network and my dsl I have a static ip. I want to be able to have anonymous logins from outside and inside the lan. I also would like to be able to have one user that can upload to /home/usr (for private stuff) and to /var/ftp/pub (incase I am away and feel the need to make something public) . Should I upload to /home/usr or mkd /var/ftp/private??? Should I use ftp to upload at all or is there a better way???
Thanks for any help or ideas that anyone may have.
Ben

FTP...isn't secure. I'm not necessarily saying you shouldn't use it....but secure ftp should be looked into

With regards to the folder...i personally don't see a difference as long as the directory permissions are set correctly

yeah Im trying to set up a FTP server too. FTP doesn't encrypt passwords - sends them in plain text - so everyone between your box and the client's can sniff them.
Can someone recooment a ftpd that is easily configured for additional security, like, SSL or TLS... that would be cool
my server is fedora core 1, and vsftpd comes with the distro... I have trouble setting up the anonymous logins, and Ill probably go with pureftpd, as lots of guys are recommending it (www.pureftpd.org), or maybe proftp.
Peace

my anonymous users will not need passwords to log on so people can sniff for those all they want. but if i should not use a privlaged user to upload files is there anything else that I can use??? mostly I will just be uploading file from a trusted network (all of the pcs on the lan are mine) but i would still like to be able upload remotly and I can't just e-mail them to myself because I want to use the server for large files, such as dfferent distros' isos and other GNU programs that I have found that I would like to share..

If you're not worried about plain text passwords, I think that proftpd is the way to go. For me, it is robust and easy to setup. If you are worried about security, take a look a sftp, ftp with an ssh wrapper. I've never used, so I can't attest to how good or not good it is.