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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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wonder which distros they passing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

The kid in me hopes its Slackware, but the loser in me hopes its Arch. 😂😂😂