SUMMARY: anonymous ftp - but files with site only access

From: Bugs Brouillard <bb1_at_axe.humboldt.edu>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 14:01:20 -0800 (PST)

My problems was:

->>Hi managers.
->> Is there a way to have anonymous ftp setup with a directory
->>or files available to only users with userid's in the domain of
->>humboldt.edu? or at least, users on the host. We plan to make
->>proprietary software which is licensed to users at this domain only,
->>and accessible through anon-ftp.
->>Thanks

I wish to thank:
Hans Kowallik
rem_at_ams.org
Lucio Chiappetti
Biggerstaff, Craig T
lombardi emanuele
Carlos A M dos Santos

Some suggested tcp wrappers, which i use, but i still have to allow
"the world" to anon-ftp to our server.

Also a suggestion of a "guest" ftp account. Impractical in our case,
but thanks.

Also a couple suggested wu-ftp. That might be worthy to note, and i will
take a look at it. What might be the best solution is a cgi script that
only allows whatever domains you with to allow access to certain files.


Here it is:

Another possible solution for you would be to make the thing accessible only
via a Web page. If you have an httpd server like NCSA's, it is quite easy
to restrict access to an entire directory only to nodes of a particular
domain, just writing an appropriate .htaccess file. See tutorial in

http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs/tutorials/user.html
  
e.g. this is an example of one of our .htaccess

AuthUserFile /dev/null
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName AllowFromSAX
AuthType Basic

   <Limit GET>
   order deny,allow
   deny from all
   allow from .ifctr.mi.cnr.it
   OnDeny http://sax.ifctr.mi.cnr.it/Xashelp/warning.html
   </Limit>

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Bugs Brouillard Unix system administrator
Humboldt State Univ. 707-826-6123
Arcata, Calif Fax 707-826-6100

email bb1_at_axe.humboldt.edu
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