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A separate LiveZone FTP site allows you to publish files for retrieval or download, separate from your regular Web site. In addition, you may permit visitors to upload files to your FTP site, either for others to download, or into private "drop-box" directories that only you can access.
Visitors to your LiveZone hosted FTP site will be greeted with a login banner. This banner is the text file /banner.msg at the top level of your FTP site. A default file is placed there when your FTP site is created, but you may change it however you desire.
When your FTP site is created, you specified the administrative username and password. This username has complete administrative control over your FTP site, including:
The standard LiveZone FTP site configuration provides a very flexible FTP site, including drop-boxes and "anonymous" access. Making the most of the capabilities of your FTP site will require some investment by you in learning the ins-n-outs of FTP and UNIX file administration. If you don't wish to administer your own FTP site, LiveZone administrators are ready and able to administer your site for you. For more information, please contact LZinfo @ LiveZone.com.
Access to your FTP site is using any hostname you choose. Often, "ftp" is chosen, but any name can be used. Saying the hostname is "ftp" means that people must access your FTP siting the full name of ftp.yourDomain.com.
In addition to the administrative username, you may request additional FTP usernames (with optional passwords) to control access to your FTP site. This allows you to keep the administrative username completely secure. There is a small charge to create these FTP usernames, but no on-going cost.
The FTP site administrator has complete control over the ability of these additional users to upload, download, or delete any file or direcetory within your FTP site. File permissions by anonymous users are controlled by the "group" read/write/execute file attributes (note: "execute" permission on directories controls the ability to list files within a directory).
"Anonymous" FTP access is enabled upon request when your FTP site is created. There is no additional cost for this capability. Visitors to your FTP site may identify themselves using the username "anonymous" with the password set to their email address. File permissions by anonymous users are controlled by the "other" read/write/execute file attributes (note: "execute" permission on directories controls the ability to list files within a directory).
LiveZone FTP sites support special upload-only directories for use with anonymous FTP access. These drop-box directories let visitors upload files into a directory you created for them, but won't let them download anything within the drop-box. By setting-up a separate drop-box for each client, for example, clients can deliver files for you without being able to access each others' files.
You create a drop-box directory by simply creating a directory with the name "incoming" or "incoming.xxxx", where xxxx can be a sequence of characters (of any length) that are normally legal within a filename.
By default anonymous users have write-only permission within the "incoming" or "incoming.*" directories (if they exist) and their immediate sub-directories. Write permission can be removed from any file or directories by removing write permission for "other". Write-only permission means that although a visitor can upload files into these directories, they can't download any files, including those the same visitor just uploaded.
Within these "incoming" directories, anonymous users can normally see the names of the files, even though they can't download them. If you wish to prevent anonymous users from being able to see files already on the server, you can remove read permission from the directory itself. An example looks follows; notice the final missing "r" permission:
Other than within the "incoming" directories described in, anonymous users have read-only access to the entire site by default. anonymous users can be prevented from reading any file or directory by removing read permission for "other" from the file or directory.
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Last Updated January 2007 |