Blog on Charlie’s Server

Since I’m now back on Comcast as my backbone to the great intertubes, I’m able to re-enable the FTP server. I’m proud to announce that the FTP server is back and is available for immediate consumption. This should provide an added benefit over SFTP/SCP in that resuming transfers is easier; especially helpful since I get a great deal of dropped connections (Comcast, are you listening?) on long-lived and/or heavy-traffic sockets.

In the near future I will set up permissions so that the FTP file system will be unavailable via SFTP — that way, there’s a privilege separation that’s easier to manage than the hodge-podge that currently exists. At that point, I’ll write another update to show how I did it!