On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:33 PM, jedd <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri Feb 6 2009, Robert Dailey wrote:
> > 80 lines snipped
>
> First, learn to edit your posts better.
If you have nothing nice to say don't say anything at all.
> > Thanks for taking the time to explain everything. I think the problem
> > is that I want this to be simple. I want to allow a specific person
> > to use a portion of my hard drive for their personal backup, and SCP
> > comes to mind as the first solution.
>
>
> One person?
>
> That you trust enough to have some space but not visibility
> of things within your FS that aren't well protected?
>
> It *sounds like* you have a trust issue here, so consider what
> you are actually willing to offer this person.
Yet you know nothing about the situation. What are you, my therapist? I
asked a simple logical question, I don't know why you're being this way...
Depending on what reliability of this service, capacity and
> controls on that capacity, and what level of concern you have
> for this person's motivations and their own system's security ..
> you may want to opt out for the sledgehammer approach of
> a virtual machine.
>
> The problem with this is that it appears heavy.
>
> The upside is that you can give them access to a lump of data
> that is very easy to control the size of, they have the tools
> (if they want them) of managing their data replica on your
> system, you can migrate between hosts without installing
> and re-configuring a bunch of security software, you are very
> sure that they won't accidentally or otherwise be tripping
> around your file system full of live data, and they can use
> whatever tool they want at their end (SCP, as you suggest,
> would be a 30 second job to set up).
>
> And, really, virtualisation is pretty cheap now, in both senses
> of the word.
A lot of people have responded to this thread and have been EXTREMELY
helpful. You seem to be nothing more than a troll. Nothing you have said
made any sense, and a couple of things you have said appear to be very rude
and misguided.
Everyone has more than adequately answered my question here. I'm fully
convinced that RSSH isn't what I want. Additionally I'm not even sure if
Linux is the solution to the problem. On Windows, I am able to use a GUI
application to setup SSL-FTP. I don't have to use PAM or any other difficult
measures to setup virtual users. I can fully configure my FTP server in a
reliable way through an intuitive GUI. Normally being without a GUI to setup
something wouldn't bother me, such as with Apache. However vsftpd (which
seems to be the most common FTP server application) is still too complex for
my tastes. It would be great to have an FTP server that has web
administration support.
Anyway, this is getting a bit off topic now (In more ways than one), so I'm
going to declare this thread SOLVED and CLOSED. Thanks again to all of the
great support from the community.
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