There is a periodic meeting of linux users in my area where everyone brings laptops and connects to a LAN. Just wondering if I want to share files with them, what are decent options? Is FTP still the best option or has anything more interesting emerged in the past couple decades? Guess I would not want to maintain a webpage so web servers are nixed. It’s mainly so ppl can fetch linux ISO images and perhaps upload what they have as well.
(update) options on the table:
- ProFTPd
- OpenSSH SFTP server (built into SSHd)
- SAMBA
- webDAV file server - maybe worth a look, if other options don’t pan out; but I imagine it most likely does not support users uploading
I started looking at OpenSSH but it’s very basic. I can specify a chroot dir that everyone lands in, but it’s impossible to give users write permission in that directory. So there must be a subdir with write perms. Seems a bit hokey.. forces people to chdir right away. I think ProFTPd won’t have that limitation.
rejetto hfs.
Two possible issues w/that w.r.t my use case:
Nonetheless, I appreciate the suggestion. It could be handy in some situations.
I didn't understand the point number two. You can set up whatever access you want for the users. If the option you want does not exist - there is a plugin for it, I'm sure.