Re: ftp to webserver - not as rot

2003-08-14 Thread Wolfgang Fischer
On Sat, 09 Aug 2003 13:30:06 +0200, Anita Lewis wrote: > This may be a dumb question on the wrong list, but here goes. > > I'm learning to set up a server via remote. We've got a mail server going > and mailman as well. We have apache going and have put some pages in > /var/www. There's a fire

RE: ftp to webserver - not as rot

2003-08-14 Thread John Stevenson
If you have managed to set up all these servers, you could also try set up a CVS server. A CVS server can be used for managing versions of you files and is also a standard way to deploy web pages and code to a live web environment. AFAIK it is very secure assuming that you run the CVS server

RE: ftp to webserver - not as rot

2003-08-09 Thread Bengt Thurée
If you only allow SSH and not telnet, you should not really allow ftp either. Perhaps look into some more secure alternatives (like scp, sftp or something) Also, make sure that you do not run your webserver as root, since if someone do manage to break in through your webserver, then they will have

Re: ftp to webserver - not as rot

2003-08-09 Thread Gregory K. Johnson
Anita Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to be able to work on pages in /var/www, because those pages > come up when the domain name is accessed via browser. /var/www is > root.root > > Is there a way other than dropping the pages off as user via ftp, > ssh and su to root and move them, to