Re: Accessing the File server

[Tomas Wolf <tomas () skip cz>]

It is always a rish to run services on a public network... But it is 
necesary too :-) ... I would look at tcp wrappers and configured  
/etc/inetd.conf (man for help), and also two files /etc/hosts.deny & 
/etc/hosts.allow -- I have one thing, allow overrides deny, so ALL: ALL 
setting in deny doesn't neceserily mean that no user could remotly 
connect to the machine -- that is why we have hosts.allow :-). Some FTP 
deamonst create their own password file, so I believe that if the users 
are properly sorted, marked, etc., it should give enough flexibility to 
set boundaries by the group or owner number.
Another would be static IP and VPN....Good luck with that too ;-)
Tomas

Kanwar Sidhu wrote:

> Hi There,
> I got file server Red Hat Linux that is accessible only inside from my
> organization. I am just wondering is there any kind of secure method so
> that people can access files from the outside world without any hitch
> with security. I was thinking is there any kind of web interface method
> so that people just enter there user names & get access to files. But
> this I think will involve running web server which I don't want to do.
> Is there any other solution out there ???
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kanwar Sidhu
>
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