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Anonymous FTP on optics

Anonymous FTP has been restored on optics. Due to whopping security problems with anonymous ftp (which have caused us problems in the past), it is read-only. To make something available anonymously, you have to put it in /home/ftp/pub, and only the superuser can write stuff there. If you would like to make something available there, just ask Rob, Anton or Lincoln to copy it there.

An alternative to using anonymous FTP is to put the document in your web directory from which any person can download the data using a web browser.
For example:

Copy the file paper.pdf to your $USER/web directory
Change the read permissions by typing chmod -R ugo+rx ~/web
Anyone can now download the document by going to the web page location http://optics.ph.unimelb.edu.au/~barty/paper.pdf
The document is also readable by anyone in the group, and may be copied to individual home directories
(for example, cp ~barty/web/paper.pdf .)

Created: 1 May 98

Updated: 1 November 99
Maintainer: Robert Scholten, School of Physics, Email: r.scholten at physics.unimelb.edu.au
Authorised by: Robert Scholten, School of Physics, Email: r.scholten at physics.unimelb.edu.au
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