APM: Perl FTP server
Wayne Walker
wwalker at bybent.com
Fri Dec 2 10:35:42 PST 2005
perl -MCPAN -e 'install Net::FTPSrerver'
Development time, 5 minutes :)
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 12:20:00PM -0600, Fluhmann, Jeremy wrote:
>
> Ok, maybe I havenât been able to think through this, but here is what Iâm
> looking at:
>
>
> My department hosts 400+ web sites for our student organizations. Some
> sites run on a Windows Server 2003 box w/ IIS 6.0, while the others run on a
> Windows 2000 Server box w/ IIS 5.1. They will be consolidating soon to
> 2003/IIS 6.0.
>
> Every semester, several students come by, call, and e-mail saying, âWe
> donât know our FTP username/passwordâ. The information is never passed
> along. I get tired of resetting passwords.
>
>
> What I want to experiment with is this:
>
> All students have a university login. I can write web applications that can
> use this login for authentication (via CAS or LDAP). I want to allow the
> President of each organization to be able to add student logins as
> webmasters for their site. The student's login is stored in a database, as
> well as each site that they can manage (some students are webmasters for
> several groups). I can already do all of this.
>
>
> I want to be able to have these users use their student login to connect via
> FTP. I only want the folders for which they have access to be displayed
> (using the information stored in the database).
>
>
> I welcome any comments, suggestions, or criticisms that anyone has. I
> thought about trying to write my own FTP server. I acknowledge that I need
> to do some research on FTP server, since I'm not exaclty sure if I could
> modify it to work like I want. Since I'm fairly comfortable with Perl, can
> anyone point me to resources for writing an FTP server in Perl? Also
> remember, I am currently on a Windows box. I have a linux test server
> running FC4 if suggestions are provided for a linux solution. I've been
> able to successfully map windows folders from my web server to the linux
> box, but the permissions are confusing me a little. My boss prefers to keep
> everything running on the windows boxes.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeremy
>
> Jeremy Fluhmann
>
> Microcomputer Specialist
>
> Department of Student Activities
>
> Texas A&M University
>
> 979-458-4649
>
> jeremy at stuact.tamu.edu
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