A'right, well, I scrounged together what I could for a pc, and got an ethernet card with some ethernet cable so I could learn about linux networking and linux network programming. The server as of now doesn't have a cdrom so I can't really have large pieces of data unless I can somehow send data across network, but with the redhat 9.0 server installation, is there any software that lets me host an ftp server? I tried editing the file... fstab or something like that, but it didn't work. Any idea's, good links(i did try google)?

If you are just talking basic file transfer, "scp" works nicely. Just need sshd to be running.
Check "man scp" for details.
Basically "scp /file/to/transfer /to/here"

its easy to enable ftp on RH9

just go to /etc/init.d

and start the vstfpd deamon.

do a ./vsftpd start from there.

if you want root to be able to connect then u need to modify these two files and hash out the root user from the two files.

go to /etc and edit two files

vsftpd.users (i think)
vsftp_user_lists ( i think)

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Take a look at http://www.linux-corner.net/linux/services/ftp.html

Is there anyway not to use the berkely db's to hold user info?

I'll try looking through the otherone I backed up, but if you have info I'd be glad to listen.

like, is there any other way to hold the user names and passwords, without using berkely db and pam? and how would I configure the .conf to do this?