Suggestions/problems regarding anonymous FTP

[freshmint]

I was trying to use the FTP Management from DirectAdmin, but I got a few suggestions/problems.

1. When editing anonymous FTP settings, if welcome.msg doesn't exist, DA will print in the textarea "Error reading welcome.msg file". Thus, while saving any modifications you did, you'll now have a welcome.msg on your public_ftp folder, with that error message. Maybe it's supposed to be like that, but I thought it to be quite odd.

2. All files uploaded by an anonymous user are invisible to him on his side. So let's say someone upload something and doesn't even know if it worked. The only way to verify if the file was sucessfully uploaded is trying to upload it again, and waiting for your FTP client to ask you if you want to overwrite it. That must be a permission issue, can't this be fixed in a way the person can see the file, but can't delete/overwrite it? And maybe can't read it too?

Thanks.

 

[nobaloney]

1. I don't know.

2. That's quite standard for anonymous ftp. Otherwise it will end up being used as a repository for warez, etc.

The site admin needs to move anything s/he wants made public from the uploads directory to the main directory.

Jeff

 

[freshmint]

1. I don't know.

2. That's quite standard for anonymous ftp. Otherwise it will end up being used as a repository for warez, etc.

The site admin needs to move anything s/he wants made public from the uploads directory to the main directory.

Jeff

I see. I considered that option, but I didn't know it's the standard. If it is the standard so let it be.

Now #1 seems just like a silly bug.

 

[nobaloney]

For several years the ftp server that came with Windows NT didn't do it with a separate upload directory and for years the standard response was to turn off anonymous ftp on MS servers.

They eventually figured out what we 'nix users have known for years .

Jeff